Melancholy
by Barbara Keith
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Title
Melancholy
Artist
Barbara Keith
Medium
Mixed Media - Watercolor Enhanced Colored Pencil On Hot Press Paper
Description
* NOTE: 07-08-19 Greeting Card Sale to Idaho Falls, ID
* NOTE: 01-20-13 Print Sale to Hillsboro, OR
Black jaguars are mainly found in Central and South America particularly in the dense rainforest of Amazon Basin where the dark coloration gives them better camouflage in the dimly lit conditions.
A black jaguar is the same species as a normal-colored jaguar with melanistic coloration causing the fur of the animal to be very dark or black. Melanism occurs because of a dominant gene mutation of the jaguar. The melanistic trait is a result of heredity. Black jaguars can produce both black and fair-colored cubs, but fair-colored jaguars produce only fair-colored cubs when bred together. The jaguar mutation gene is not completely dominant. A black jaguar with two copies of the gene are darker than a jaguar with just one copy whose coat color may appear to be dark charcoal rather than black. Melanism is thought to be a favorable evolutionary mutation for jaguars (blackpantheranimal.com).
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July 13th, 2009
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Taphath Foose
Great work, Barbara!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Mix Your Media"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations and Happy New Year!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2019 January: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ . If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (January 20, 2019)