Black Panther
by LaDonna McCray
Title
Black Panther
Artist
LaDonna McCray
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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A black panther is the melanistic color variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present. They have been documented mostly in tropical forests, with black leopards in Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Java, and black jaguars of the Americas in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and Paraguay. Melanism is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard and by a dominant allele in the jaguar.
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March 7th, 2022
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