Black Animals

Black animals have said coloration due to a higher amount of a group of pigments called melanin. Most of the animals listed here develop an all black coloration either from birth or when they reach adult hood.

List of Black Animals

Mammals

• Agu Pig
• American Black Bear
• Angus Cattle
• Asian Black Bear
• Black Panther
• Bonobo
• Celebes Crested Macaque
• Chilean Dolphin
• Chimpanzee
• Greater Ani
• Mountain Gorilla
• Scottish Terrier
• Short-finned Pilot Whale
• Silver Fox
• Wild Water Buffalo

Birds

• American Crow
• Ancona Chicken
• Ayam Cemani
• Black Swan
• Common Blackbird
• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Great Cormorant
• Lesser Frigatebird
• White-lined Tanager

Amphibians

• Speckled Black Salamander

Reptiles

• Black Adder
• Blue-Tongued Skink
• Indigo Snake
• Western Rat Snake

Insects

• Black Katydid
• Black Saddlebags Skimmer
• Black Witch Moth
• Cactus Longhorn
• Lobster Moth

Invertebrates

• Arabian Fat-tailed Scorpion
• Black Slug
• Southern Black Widow
• Western Black Widow

Fish

• Black Molly
• Black Moor Goldfish
• Lyre-tail Pleco
• Rainbow Shark
• Wrought Iron Butterflyfish