The panther is still furious with the humans. He begins to lower his paw on the other humans. Then he starts to calm down. These humans did stay put and had behaved themselves. He changes his mind and lowers the paw away from the humans.
The humans have backed as far away from the panther as they can. He notices this and enjoys how just standing in front of them can inspire such fear. Then he remembers that he enjoyed being petted when he was in the zoo. There may be a use for the humans that does not involve their deaths.
The people think the panther has changed its mind again when a giant paw begins to approach them. Then the paw actually lands a short distance from the humans. They start to back away from it and the panther begins to growl. The people are scared and try to back away even more and the volume of the growling grows. Some people get the clue and begin to approach the paw and the growling stops.
Pleased that the humans were able to understand his intentions, he begins to purr as the humans start to pet his paw. Even though all of them are petting his paw they just barely surround his paw. The panther lifts his paw up when he is finished, inadvertently injuring a few people that did not react fast enough.
His pleasure done, the panther decides to...