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VIGabriele Corno's post shares a viral video depicting a woman mistaking a baby black panther for a stray kitten, raising it alongside her cats until authorities relocate it to a sanctuary, drawing from the real 2020 rescue of Luna, a melanistic leopard in Siberia whose mother rejected her at a travelling zoo.
The footage blends authentic elements of Luna's story- such as hand-rearing and human-animal bonds-with
dramatised details like the roadside discovery and cat friendships, though Luna's actual companion was a Rottweiler, fuelling viewer suspicions of AI enhancement given subtitle glitches and narrative tweaks. With over b9.000 likes and 3.5 million views in under a
day, the post highlights enduring appeal of interspecies tales, yet sparks debates on authenticity, as peer-reviewed wildlife studies emphasise ethical challenges in raising big cats, încluding risks to both animals and handlers documented in journals like Conservation Biology.
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