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12 mar 2021 · Two melanistic jaguars have been documented by camera traps in Panama’s Mamoní Valley. Researcher Kimberly Craighead with the Kaminando—Habitat Connectivity Initiative working there says they have identified 15 individual jaguars in the area, which is covered in primary and secondary forest.
27 paź 2021 · The America’s singular black cat. Black jaguars are sometimes misidentified as black panthers, which are not actually a species but a term popularly used for melanistic leopards and jaguars which have dark pigmentation.
17 lis 2023 · We report the first camera-trap photographic record of a melanistic jaguar Panthera onca for northern Central America. Previous records had been reported from Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and...
11 mar 2020 · Of the six felid species that occupy Costa Rica, three are known to exhibit melanistic polymorphisms—jaguar (Panthera onca), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), and northern tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus oncilla); there are no records of melanistic puma (Puma concolor) or ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in Costa Rica, and melanistic margay ...
Neron is a black jaguar born in Amsterdam and part of a breeding programme. He is a gentle and chatty boy who lives with his partner Keira and their daughter Inka at the sanctuary.
11 lip 2023 · The black jaguar is a melanistic jaguar. They are from the same species as jaguars, Panthera onca, but some individuals, due to a genetic mutation, produce a larger amount of the pigment melanin, giving them a dark color.
Close up portrait of melanistic jaguar. Black panther at night in the jungle, black color morph, native to Central and South America.
