Wolves often have gray, grayish white, or light brown coloring. Melanistic wolves are much less common.

This rooster seems to be the fruit of someone’s imagination, but it’s real.

The serval is one of 12 felines prone to melanism.

This jaguar’s coloring is an example of an incomplete mutation.

A giraffe like you’ve never seen before.

Melanism is usually associated with the process of adaptation to environmental conditions, but there are exceptions, as in the case of this flamingo.

Bambi could look like this.

This phenomenon doesn’t cause any harm to the animals’ bodies.

If animals of a darker coloring are more viable than lighter ones, the changes can be picked up by natural selection.

It’s worth admitting that such a mutation looks fantastic.