Tuesday 11 June 2013

[www.keralites.net] Most Amazing Melanistic Animals

 

Most Amazing Melanistic Animals

1. Lizards



Melanistic Eastern Blue Tongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides).


Melanistic Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel; there are still a few of these squirrels

in the area from periods when fires had been frequent. Melanism is just an extreme pigment mutation that causes deeply dark-colored animals.

3. Lion


In recent weeks, two very stunning black lion photographs have been circulating

online. Why they attract such interest is that according to mainstream zoology,

black lions simply do not exist. If they did, and were wholly black in color, they

would most probably be melanistic specimens; analogous if not homologous

genetically with black panthers (melanistic leopards) and mutant all-black

individuals of other felid species.

Sadly, for those hoping that these two photos therefore represented some

major crypto zoological discovery, the reality, as is true ever more frequently

nowadays, is that they are nothing more than Photo shopped images.

4. Fawn


Photographer R.M.Buquoi shot these pictures of a rare black fawn in Austin, Texas.

5. Penguin


An extremely rare all-black penguin was photographed near Antartica by

Andrew Evans of National Geographic. The king penguin doesn't look

like his tuxedoed counterparts because of what one scientist described

as a "one-in-a-zillion kind of mutation."

6. Silver Fox


The Silver Fox is a melanistic form of red fox. Melanism is an undue development

of dark-colored pigment in the skin, and is the opposite of albinism. Silver foxes

display a great deal of pelt variation: some are completely black, save for the

white tail tip, while others may be bluish-grey. Wild silver foxes do not

reproduce exclusively with members of the same coat morph, and can be

littermates with the common red variety.

7. Zebra


Two Plains Zebras, one with a rare dark melanistic coloration at

Etosha National Park, Namibia.

8. Seal



Melanistic seal pup in Shetland UK. Courtesy of Hillswick Wildlife.

9. Jaguar


Black Panther - a typical melanistic color of any species of big cats.


In Latin America, a Black Panther is just a melanistic jaguar;

in Asia and Africa it's a black leopard, and in North America

it may be black jaguars or pumas. By the way, it has been proven

that black cats have a more balanced nervous system and faster

response than other colors of cats. In the photo: Jaguar-melanistic.

10. Tortoise



Red foot melanistic tortoise.

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