Hunting a hunter.

[Will Hayward]

so I guess my question is, do you think the panther developed such crazy colors as a defense mechanism like look at me i taste terrible much like the monarch butterfly or the warning colors of a yellow jacket as opposed to other types of chameleons which appear to have more natural coloration

Nah, as I described above, I don't get the "Toxic taste trick" feeling from panthers. However several species that I think could possibly be implementing it, could be; B. damaranum, c. tigris and maybe a very select few other similar species. The colours represented by these are just too insane coupled by the odd texture of skin they exhibit, and so they give me that impression.