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The black panther, a melanistic leopard, is common in the equatorial rainforest of Malaya and the tropical rainforest on the slopes of some African mountains, such as Mount Kenya. The serval also has melanistic forms in certain areas of East Africa. In the jaguarundi, coloration varies from dark brown and gray to light reddish.
A black tiger is a pseudo-melanistic tiger with thick, merging stripes. Black Tiger may also refer to: Penaeus monodon (Black tiger shrimp), one of the two most important species of farmed prawn; Black Tiger, a 1982 release by Y&T; Black Tiger (video game), an arcade game developed by the Japanese company Capcom in 1987
Pseudo-melanistic white tiger. The three colour variants of Bengal tigers – nearly stripeless snow-white, white and golden – are now virtually non-existent in the wild due to the reduction of wild tiger populations but continue in captive populations. The white tiger has a white background colour with sepia-brown stripes.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Variant of leopard and jaguar For other uses, see Black panther (disambiguation). A melanistic Indian leopard in Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). Black panthers of both ...
A cougar emerged from brush in the park near Santa Clarita and bit the boy, who was walking with his father, officials say.
A white tiger in a zoo in Japan Pseudo-melanistic white tiger. A white tiger's pale coloration is due to the lack of the red and yellow pheomelanin pigments that normally produce the orange coloration. [6] This had long been attributed to a mutation in the gene for the tyrosinase (TYR) enzyme.