Sjmarf to Today I [email protected]English • 3 months agoTIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinismimagemessage-square37arrow-up1531arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1526arrow-down1imageTIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinismSjmarf to Today I [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square37file-text
The trait is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and a dominant allele in the jaguar. Black Panther on Wikipedia
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months ago“Don’t trust them new panthers over there…”
I thought it was called revitiligo.
“Don’t trust them new panthers over there…”