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17 animals that painted the night itself
If something never ceases to amaze us for centuries, so it is the work of nature. A great example of melanism, a phenomenon in which animals get a much darker color than their relatives.
The website has collected 17 photos proving that black color is for everyone.
Wolves often have gray, gray-white or light brown color, and much rarer these are the wolves-melanin
It seems that this cock — a figment of someone's wild imagination, but no
The Serval is one of the 12 breeds of cat which are prone to melanism
The color of this Jaguar is an example of incomplete mutation
Giraffe, what you haven't seen it yet
Most often, melanism is associated with the process of adaptation to environmental conditions, but there are exceptions, as in the case with this Flamingo
A young Royal penguin, which looks really Royal
But Bambi could be so!
Examples of the pronounced melanism is not only in the wild, and this Pomeranian is proof
This phenomenon does not cause the animals any harm
If animals are dark brown in color, is more viable than light, changes can be picked up by natural selection
And then they will appear again in the next generation
We have to admit that this mutation only decorates
Over time people are finding new cases of melanism in those species for which previously it was not peculiar to
Reptiles black color plays into the hands: the skin does not reflect light, which helps to better retain heat
So nature definitely all have a reason
And even the goldfish who suddenly became black!
But Lviv-melanistic, unfortunately, does not exist. This is photo manipulation, which became widespread and is still misleading many astray
Photos on the preview rleverton/Imgur phenomenalcosmicpowers/Imgur
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