Sjmarf to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoTIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinismimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-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 Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
The trait is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and a dominant allele in the jaguar. Black Panther on Wikipedia
minus-squaredream_weasellinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoFor anyone else interested, melanism does not exist in humans. So no…
For anyone else interested, melanism does not exist in humans. So no…