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A black panther is the melanistic colour 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 Africa and Asia, and black jaguars in South America.
12 mar 2021 · Learn about the two melanistic jaguars documented by camera traps in Panama's Mamoní Valley, a conservation area with high biodiversity. Find out how melanism is associated with humidity, forest density, and temperature in jaguars and other big cats.
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 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.
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 ...
Twenty-five percent of jaguar records in dense forest were melanistic compared with the global average of 10% in both open and closed habitats; 32% of oncilla records were melanistic compared...
