Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinismsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1529arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1524arrow-down1imageTIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinismsh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
The trait is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and a dominant allele in the jaguar. Black Panther on Wikipedia
minus-squareTwinklebreeze @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·5 months agoI thought it was called revitiligo.
minus-squareIlluminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months ago“Don’t trust them new panthers over there…”
I thought it was called revitiligo.
“Don’t trust them new panthers over there…”