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Meaning of "melanistic"
The adjective 'melanistic' is used to describe an animal, especially a leopard or jaguar, that has a large amount of dark pigment melanin in its skin, fur, or feathers
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- Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting melanism.
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It is a melanistic breed which are black all over.
There are no authenticated cases of truly melanistic cougars.
Some melanistic individuals have also been reported.
One subspecies is melanistic almost all black.
Both queens and males can be melanistic.
Partially melanistic morphs can also be found.
A number of fallow deer in the central area are melanistic.
Melanistic as well as leucistic individuals have been noted.
The silver fox is a melanistic form of red fox.
Melanistic individuals have been recorded in some areas.
Escaped cats were melanistic leopards.
Melanistic servais are also known.
They can also be referred to as melanistic leopards or melanistic jaguars.
Melanistic form fairly common.
The silver fox is a melanistic form of the wild red fox.
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Melanistic examples are not uncommon.
Some of them are melanistic.
Hair of melanistic skins is entirely black.
It is that a third gene determines whether or not there is a melanistic mask.
Both albino and melanistic individuals have also been reported.
In the background may be my melanistic deer?
Black melanistic wolves are a simple variation of the gray wolves.
A black leopard is defined as the melanistic colour variant of any big cat species.
Melanistic individuals exist.
A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species.
Melanistic leopards occur.
However, contemporary taxonomy considers them simply a melanistic morph.
The presence of a melanistic mask is permitted under the breed standard.
They are quite uniform in appearance, yellow hair and melanistic masks.
Melanistic forms of servais and leopards arise mainly in the highlands.
Unlike gray wolves, eastern wolves rarely produce melanistic individuals.
Melanistic coyotes owe their black pelts to a mutation that first arose in domestic dogs.
So-called black panthers are actually leopards or jaguars with melanistic colouration.
Some melanistic oncillas have been reported from the more heavily forested parts of its range.
Unlike their penguin counterparts, a melanistic zebra is not fully black.
A few melanistic bobcats have been sighted and captured in Florida.
They probably added it because it was a really strange, like, melanistic dark morph.
Vesey Fitzgerald saw a melanistic cheetah in Zambia along with a normal spotted one.
Among caterpillars at high densities, there are higher frequencies of melanistic phenotypes.
A melanistic cheetah in Zambia was seen by Vesey Fitzgerald in the company of a spotted cheetah.
In the sparse landscape of Africa, melanistic leopards are extremely rare.
Melanistic Panthera pardus.
Based on records from camera-traps, melanistic leopards occur foremost in tropical and subtropical moist forests.
Melanistic maned wolves do exist, but are rare.
Dyselius was nothing more than a melanistic individual of E. cupreoventris.
Melanistic specimens are also infrequently seen, while albinism is extremely rare.
Surely I was not going to be lucky enough to actually photograph a melanistic African leopard?!
The Black Wolf is a melanistic color variant of the grey wolf Canis lupus.
Probably added it because it was a really strange, like, melanistic dark morph.
Occasionally, a melanistic individual may be found in the wild.
