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  1. hostilepopcorn: “ northernersfeel: “ devodyana: “ kingsxoqueens: “The opposite of albinism called melanism, a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black. ” nature & real talk ” Holy shit that’s majestic. ” Yes, the powers of Photoshop are...

    hostilepopcorn:

    northernersfeel:

    devodyana:

    kingsxoqueens:

    The opposite of albinism called melanism, a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black.

    nature & real talk

    Holy shit that’s majestic.

    Yes, the powers of Photoshop are indeed majestic

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    So far the closest thing we have to melanistic lions are the black-mained Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica), and it’s not known whether lions are even able to be melanistic!

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    The only melanistic big cats we know of are jaguars…

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    …and leopards.

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    We do, however, know of abundism in other big cats! What’s abundism you may ask? Well, it’s basically when places that normally have a lot of melanin end up producing an abundance of it. So an abundistic tiger looks like this:

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    And an abundistic cheetah looks like this:

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    And just for good measure, here’s an abundistic leopard:

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    This has been a PSA!

    (via crazycrazyrainbowstar)