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- Black panthers are jaguars and leopards which are black in colour.
- Their black colour comes from excess of the black pigment.
- Thus, they are a melanistic variety of jaguars and panthers.
- They are commonly found in tropical forests.
- Black jaguars are found in South America.
- Black leopards are found in South Asia.
- Black panthers have the rosettes that are typical to their species.
- The rosettes are just less visible because of their dark colour.
- The melanism is caused by dominant and recessive alleles.
- Bagheera is the famous black leopard in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book.
