Panic in French town as black panther spotted prowling on rooftops after escaping house

AN escaped black PANTHER sent shockwaves through a French town today after it was seen roaming rooftops.

The big cat prowled the streets of Armentieres, near Lille, before being captured by authorities.

The black panther is seen roaming the rooftops in a small French town on Thursday. According to reports, the beast’s owner is still being hunted by cops.

A Black Panther is not a species, but a reference to the color of types of leopards of jaguars.
The blackness is caused by the agouti gene, which regulates the distribution of black pigment within the hair shaft.

The gene is most common in leopards from Africa and Asia, and in jaguars from South America.

Those who appear in countries such as France and Britain are invariably zoo escapees or released pets that had been held illegally, possibly because they became too difficult to manage.