Panthers are majestic animals. Not only that. They served as an inspiration to great movie and cartoon characters, including the Black Panther, Pink Panther, and Bagheera, the black panther. Besides that, the majestic physique and appearance of panthers were an inspiration for a lot of artistic work. The panther tattoo is no exception to that.

If you’re reading this article, you must be impressed and allured by the beauty and elegance that panthers bring with their appearance. They may not be talked about as often as with other animals like tigers and leopards. Still, they deserve worshipping of their own.

With that in mind, to celebrate the beauty and power of these animals, we created a comprehensive, yet detailed list of the best panther tattoo designs. If you want to learn more about these amazing animals, you should definitely check the section with different definitions and meanings of the panther tattoo.

Panther Tattoo Meanings

Before we dig into the super-creative and magical creations of different tattoo artists, let’s talk about panthers as animals, as well as define some symbolism and meanings behind them. You gotta know why you’re tattooing them on your body after all.

Some of you may feel disappointed, but if you didn’t know, the panther is not a separate animal of the large cat species. It’s a type of jaguar and leopard that has melanism. Melanism is the opposite state of albinism where animals and even humans lack skin pigment. Panthers have too much of it. As a result, they’re dark and black. They still have the spots, but they’re so dark that they’re well-obscured.

If you still don’t believe us, look at it from this perspective. The Latin meaning behind the word “Panthera” that inspired the name for black panthers is nothing else than a cat. The leopard which is one of the animals that can be born with melanism and known as the panther is known as “Panthera Pardus.”