Florida Newspaper Crafts Memorable 'Fake News' Pun

Endangered, endangered! Read all about it!

Florida’s state animal the panther, selected in 1982 by a student vote, has been on the area’s endangered-species list since 1967. But as The Tampa Bay Times’ free daily TBT noted, it’s now time for a routine review of that status.

The front-page headline of TBT’s July 4 edition is clever for several different reasons. Firstly, some Floridians believe the panthers are no longer real panthers, due to being cross-bred in the mid-1990s with mountain lions brought in from Texas, to avoid extinction.

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