The fact that they deny what people know to be there sure undercuts the trust one can put in them, doesn't it.
Never understood that. Just dumb.
They also continue to deny the existence of Big Foot too.
LOL.
Yet they've decided it's illegal to shoot one... explain that.
This would most probably be a form of melanism.
Unlike albinism, as far as I know, it's a dominant trait. If that's the case the frequency should be like solid black jaguars, 1/3 or even fully 1/2 the population.
It's got to be the lighting.
Reread your pop-gen books, you are missing a little detail or three.
I don't doubt that. Hence the "AFAIK".
What little I know about albinism, leucism, anerythrism, etc is from breeding pythons, boas, colubrids, and crotalids. New mutations never show up in the next generation. Both parent animals must carry the genetic defect before offspring show it (on the outside).
Recommend me a good book or three on the topic, I'm all ears.
