Black Panther - Black Jaguar

Deutsch: Jaguar (Panthera onca) im Zoo Salzburg (Salzburg, Österreich).
English: Jaguar (Panthera onca) at Salzburg Zoo (Salzburg, Austria).
Date 30 January 2014
Author Manfred Werner - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tsui
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaguar_(Panthera_onca)_Zoo_Salzburg_2014_i.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.