painofaninnocent:
iwishuponadream:
lionnudes:
cdashrich:
the opposite of albinism called melanism,a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black. love it more every time i see it.
wow
oh my god, this is beautiful
Melanism is real, but this picture isn’t. It’s the only picture I can find on the internet of a supposed melanistic lion, and the more I look at the edges around the lion in the photo, the more obvious it becomes that it is photoshopped.
Here’s the only article I could find referring to melanistic lions:
“In lions there have only been two reasonably reliable reports of black specimens.
The first came from archaeologist Sir Henry Layard during his time in Persia. The lion was described as “very dark brown in colour, in parts almost black.” The lion is now extinct in Persia and the accuracy of the report will forever remain unknown.
In the other case a partly black lion was captive bred, but his colouration was probably due more to mosaicism (abnormal skin cells) rather than melanism. He was infertile so did not produce offspring.
I rest my case. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet, kids, no matter how beautiful it may be.
