The Graphic Warehouse: Malanism

Welcome

I would like to welcome you to my new Blog. I do have a second located at http://danherrington.blogspot.ca/ that consists of more writing than graphics and text and the content you will see here. Feel free to check that one out too if you like.

By heart I am a writer. However, more and more graphics and text collectively and convey more potent messages with less opinions. As such I thought it wise to try something new and see how this combination would work out.

I hope you enjoy your stay and feel free to save and use the graphics I post. This is as much for you as it is for me.

Daniel Herrington - June 12, 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Malanism - what is it?

In nature we always stumble across something new, or something never seen before. Its not normally, by my experience, that we would find a breed within an existing family of familiar animals something overtly unique such as this guy...

He is called the Melanistic Lion. Melanism is a pigmentation issue in the colour of a breed of animals. And example would be a Black Panther for instance. The animal is really more or less a female lion / panther but we naturally called it a black panther because of its popularity in nature. It is not a uncommon to see as a melanistic lion for instance. Which makes the this male lion all the more unique.

Melanism occurs in all breeds of animals in nature, including humans. Shown below are 10 such animals recurring in nature. I have intentionally left out human melanism. I would suggest you search the term to see images in nature as some people might find them disturbing. I don't but I don't know others may.

Source of information is taken mostly from Wikipedia (click for full explanation)