Black Panther Panthera onca at Xcaret Riviera Maya Mexico

music by ENRIQUE DEL CARMEN 03 TEMPLO MAYOR 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. The gene is incompletely dominant: individuals with two copies of the allele are darker (the black background color is more dense) than individuals with just one copy, whose background color may appear to be dark charcoal rather than black. The jaguar is a beautiful creature, the groun