The Life of Animals | Black Panther | The fur color is a mixture of blue, black, gray and purple. Melanistic leopards are the most common form of black panther in captivity and were retained for decades in the zoo of exotic animals and crafts.
Blacks leopards are smaller and lighter than the normally pigmented individuals and built 'a myth that blacks leopards are often rejected by their mothers at an early age because of their color. According to Funk and Wagnalls Wildlife Encyclopedia captive leopards blacks are less fertile than normal leopards, with average size of waste 1.8 and 2.1, respectively. In early 1980,
Glasgow Zoo acquired a 10 years black leopard, nicknamed the Cobweb Panther, from
Dublin Zoo. This leopard had a uniformly black coat profusely sprinkled with white hairs as though draped with spider webs.