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 …

Know the animals that are melanistic with a list of their names and images.

Kenyan Black Serval Cat. Photo Sergio Pitamitz.

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.

A rare encounter of a black tiger, a majestic, solitary predator with a striking ebony coat, marking its territory.

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.