A 1-year-old Florida panther was found dead in rural Collier County on Jan. 10, the first fatality of the new year. Street View Image from April 2023 © 2025 Google ...

Without room to roam, male Florida panthers clash, often with fatal consequences; with its restricted size and absolute isolation, the panther population remains particularly vulnerable to fatal ...

where a panther fatality hasn’t been documented since 2021, records show. Most panthers of breeding age live in southwest Florida below the Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okeechobee, biologists say.

A young Florida ... panther, a male about 7 or 8 months old, was discovered dead Dec. 4 in Glades County, according to Panther Pulse. Only five days earlier, a 9-year-old male died from a crash ...