Melanistic animals

ONE of just six ultra-rare black tigers known to exist in the world has been miraculously snapped by an amateur photographer. Soumen Bajpayee took the pictures of the melanistic tiger, whose thick …

Know the animals that are melanistic with a list of their names and images.

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Nature is both wonderful and tricky: always changing, always adapting, always evolving. Nothing illustrates this sentiment better than melanism — a rare genetic mutation — even more uncommon than albinism — that turns animals pitch-black, truly making them a sight to behold.

Talking of Melanistic animals, how can we leave the black tigers of Odisha😊 Here the two captive ones in Nandankanan zoo cooling themselves in their pool with mercury soaring up. Reminding again, Odisha is the only place in world to have black tigers.

The chance your backyard is being savaged by a mole is quite a high one. Unless we’re talking an albino mole, this little white dude with a congenital lack of melanin, which occurs 1:100,000. But there’s something inherently beautiful about the odd ones out in this world, where everything seems identical to one another.

Kenyan Black Serval Cat. Photo Sergio Pitamitz.

Black lion