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ONE of just six ultra-rare black tigers known to exist in the world has been miraculously snapped by an amateur photographer. Soumen Bajpayee took the pictures of the melanistic tiger, whose thick …
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Nature just never fails to surprise us. There is no comparison with the beauty that comes with natural things. Most of it is seen in the animal kingdom when you come across rare animals. Even though all animals are special and deserve to be loved and appreciated, some are just different from others. There are
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The chance your backyard is being savaged by a mole is quite a high one. Unless we’re talking an albino mole, this little white dude with a congenital lack of melanin, which occurs 1:100,000. But there’s something inherently beautiful about the odd ones out in this world, where everything seems identical to one another.
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Melanistic barn owl by fremlin Melanism is an undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism. Historically, it was also the medical term for black jaundice. Pseudo-melanism, also called abundism, is another variant of pigmentation, characterized by dark spots or enlarged stripes, which cover a large part of the body of the animal making it appear melanistic.
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Talking of Melanistic animals, how can we leave the black tigers of Odisha😊 Here the two captive ones in Nandankanan zoo cooling themselves in their pool with mercury soaring up. Reminding again, Odisha is the only place in world to have black tigers.
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Melanistic raccoon I saw the other day, most unique raccoon I have ever seen!
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