The black jags are escaped or released, not native. I am sure they have come and gone through the years, but to say there is a breeding population in the wild is far fetched. Mountain lions in Oklahoma have been documented (not sightings, but dead, caught alive and photographed) enough times to suspect that they may be beginning to establish a breeding population in some parts of the state. By the way I used to live on a mining claim in the exact area in south central Arizona where the Jaguar was documented. It is incredibly rugged and desolate. And the whole general area is much less populated than Oklahoma. The area from interstate 19 to Sasabe has one thru dirt road and its 30 by 30 miles. The mountain tops are over 7000 feet with valleys that head straight into Old Mexico that are 3500 feet. These valleys are historical animal travel corridors. Animals come straight north from the Sierra Madre. Sycamore canyon for example has a Mexican mountain parrot of all things. Without these corridors to the scant Mexican populations there would be no Jaguars in Arizona possible today. If you care to check it out, the AZ game and fish put a radio collar on a Jaguar they caught Jaguar Management . And nope, no black ones ever seen, lol.