Over the past 5 years we have been able to film a handful of black, melanistic jaguars in Naso territory. While being handed the picture of a dead black jaguar cub back in 2015 in a community meeting in one of the Naso villages was an absolute nightmare, the one minute daytime video of a big and stalky adult checking out the camera and stretching out against his marking tree was the absolute highlight of over 4000 camera trap viedos recorded in naso teritory. Here is some background information on the topic …

https://www.panthera.org/blog/2019/10/22/wild-cats-101-black-cats-and-more-melanism