eregyrn-falls reblogged
Melanistic animals🖤
@elodieunderglass I’m sure you’ve seen this already, but I thought of you.
I’m always up for more MELANIN!! GOD some of these just make me want to take off my cowboy hat and throw it on the ground and JUMP ON IT. DANGNABBIT. LOOK AT THAT OWL
#nature#melanism#owls#wolves#raccoons#super cool stuff!#(tbh up until now i thought ''melanistic'' referred to spontaneous expressions of melanism in an animal#and that it and leucism were just random expressions - individual mutations like albinism#i didn't think it referred to inheritable traits#but apparently it does!#i realized that on this post because of the wolf and the fox#and the alpaca obviously)#(then i went and looked it up#and yeah)#so TIL#lizards#snakes#alligators#long post