SOURCE: A Hunger in the Soul by Mike Resnick (1998)

DESCRIPTION: "'Can something vaguely catlike, with a dark red skin and claws front and back, maybe five hundred pounds, be anything but a predator?'" (A Hunger in the Soul by Mike Resnick (1998)

NOTES: The Redpanther has an amazing jump, up to forty feet in one leap. They attack out of hunger or being spooked. Redpanthers have long claws on their front and back legs. No animal on Bushveld has retractable claws like Terran cats.

HISTORY: The obligatory big cat of Bushveld, it reminds me a bit of an Edgar Rice Burroughs creature from Venus or Pellucidar.

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