Originally Posted by
Rowdyhntr0411
2lunger - I don't think you're beating a dead horse. The rain forest part was to simply say that the belief of if we didn't believe those animals there existed until we saw them then they didn't is a false belief. It's a false way of thinking. You are completely missing my point. My POINT is that you should not discount an animal as impossible or non existent just because you haven't seen it. That's it really lol. Three years ago I could have said that piebald deer didn't exist b/c I'd never seen it, nor seen any photo evidence of one. But they do exist, and now I have. I'm just saying, don't say something doesn't exist when there IS the possibility that it COULD. I really don't mean to keep arguing either, I just can't see saying X cannot exist b/c I've not seen any photo evidence of X.

That's true that you can't discount anything. But with a quick google search you can find pics of piebald deer. Search all day for a pic of a black mountain lion and nothing. Even after all these years and thousands of sightings, no pics and no bodies. Yet tons of normal colored mountain lions.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.