Black Panther - Black Jaguar

English: Jaguar at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
Esperanto: La nigra pantero
Polski: Czarna pantera
Date 30 September 2006
Author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cburnett
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaguar.jpg

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat which is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.

In jaguars, the melanism allele is dominant. Consequently, black jaguars may produce either black or spotted cubs, but a pair of spotted jaguars can only produce spotted cubs. Individuals with two copies of the allele are darker (the black background colour is more dense) than ones with just one copy, whose background colour may appear to be dark charcoal rather than black.