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Albino & Leucistic Animals (Pigmentation Deficiency)

Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.
The bodies of the two giraffes were found "in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers" in Garissa in eastern Kenya, the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy said in a statement.
Their deaths leave just one remaining white giraffe alive -- a lone male, borne by the same slaughtered female, the conservancy said.


Their alabaster colour is caused not by albinism but a condition known as leucism, which means they continue to produce dark pigment in their soft tissue, giving them dark eyes.

https://news.yahoo.com/rare-white-giraffes-killed-poachers-kenya-conservationists-012413389.html
 
Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.
The bodies of the two giraffes were found "in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers" in Garissa in eastern Kenya, the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy said in a statement.
Their deaths leave just one remaining white giraffe alive -- a lone male, borne by the same slaughtered female, the conservancy said.


Their alabaster colour is caused not by albinism but a condition known as leucism, which means they continue to produce dark pigment in their soft tissue, giving them dark eyes.

https://news.yahoo.com/rare-white-giraffes-killed-poachers-kenya-conservationists-012413389.html

Desperately sad. The vile depravity of humankind never fails to depress me.
 
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Saved!

A six-year-old boy came to the rescue of a rare albino hedgehog which was near death when he spotted it in the middle of the road.

Ruben Wiggins realised the unusual hedgehog should not be out during the daytime and needed help.

His mother helped coax out the little creature, which had hidden under a car in Otley, West Yorkshire.

The animal, since named Jack Frost, was taken to Prickly Pigs Hedgehog Rescue and found to be "at death's door".

Diane Cook, who runs the organisation, said: "When we received the message through our Facebook page we were initially puzzled by the description and thought it was perhaps a pet African Pigmy Hedgehog that had escaped someone's home.

"When Ruben arrived with his father, we were taken back by this tiny white spiky ball with a pink nose and eyes, a true albino hedgehog."

Jack Frost the albino hedgehog


Ruben was waiting for his dad Jeff on 29 July when he spotted the hedgehog "wobbling in the middle of the road" at about 17:00 BST.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-53880061
 
Friends got a new peacock.

This ones albino; not as attractive as the coloured IMHO
 
Those arent seals.

Any more than in Kiplings story. and he would be amused to see his `White seal` isnt white...
 
An amateur fisherman has snared the first ever "albino" shark caught off the coast of Britain.

Jason Gillespie, 50, was deep-sea fishing with some friends near the Isle of Wight when he caught a tope shark that was entirely white.

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The shark, which measured around 3ft, is leucistic, a genetic condition which means it's lost all the pigment in its skin.

Under normal circumstances, Jason, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, would have immediately released the shark.

However, due to its unusual colouration, the shop fitter hauled this one on board so he could take a few snaps before letting it go.

After photographing the shark for what he said was “less than a minute,” Jason released the shark back into the ocean.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/1588095/rare-albino-shark-caught-britain/

maximus otter
 
(Pedant Hat on)

(Ye gods it looks like a mortar board, doesnt it?)

`Leucistic` isnt the same as `Albinistic` right?

And though a Tope is indeed a member of the Cartelgeneous (Spelled all wrong, I mean not a bony fish) fishes...`shark` gave me a mental image of a mako or a porbeagle.
 
A leucistic - white and yellow-ish - penguin was discovered on South Georgia in 2019.

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There's a rare yellow penguin on South Georgia island, and biologists can't quite explain it

Black-and-white tuxedos may be the conventional dress code in the penguin world, but one dashing individual is breaking the status quo with an à la mode yellow coat.

A wildlife photographer captured images of the rare penguin on a remote island in South Georgia in December 2019 and only recently released the photos. A king penguin "walked up straight to our direction in the middle of a chaos full of sea elephants and Antarctic fur seals, and thousands of other king penguins," the photographer from Belgium, Yves Adams wrote ...

At the time, Adams was leading a two-month photography expedition through the South Atlantic and had stopped on a South Georgia beach. While unpacking safety equipment, he saw a fluttering of penguins swimming toward the shore — one individual immediately caught his eye. ...

King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), just like the closely related emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), typically adorn a black-and-white coat with a yellowish-gold dash of color on their collar. The yellow pigments are "unique to penguins," though not all species have them ...

This particular penguin seems to have retained its yellow feathers but lost its dark ones, which are typically colored by a blackish brown pigment known as melanin. ...

Adams told Kennedy News that the yellow bird has a genetic condition known as leucism in which only some of the melanin is lost.

Dee Boersma, a conservation biologist and professor at the University of Washington who was not a part of the expedition, agreed. "This penguin is lacking some pigment so it is [leucistic]" ...

The penguin has lost the carotenoid or yellow-orange-red pigment in its beak and the melanin pigment in its feathers, while retaining the yellow pigment in its feathers. ...

FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/yellow-penguin-south-georgia.html
 
A rare white Risso's dolphin was spotted off the southern California coast for the fourth time since 2018.
White dolphin spotted swimming with pod off California

A whale watching tour in California was treated to a rare sight when a white dolphin was spotted swimming with a pod a few miles off the coast.

Dana Wharf Whale Watch ... said crew members with Newport Coastal Adventure spotted the white dolphin with a pod of about 40 Risso's dolphins off the coast of Laguna Beach. ...

Laura Lopez, a naturalist with Dana Wharf Whale Watch who captured photos of the white dolphin, said the pale ocean mammal is not albino, but leucistic, a related condition that involves only a partial lack of pigmentation, as opposed to a complete lack of pigmentation in albinism.

Lopez said the dolphin was spotted previously off the California coast on at least three occasions since 2018.
FULL STORY (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...ifornia-Dana-Wharf-Whale-Watch/1831621279518/
 
Leucistic Puffin On Handa Island.

A rare white puffin has been spotted on a small island off the Sutherland coast in the Highlands.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) said the bird was first seen on Handa Island in mid-June by seabird fieldworker Dora Hamilton. The young puffin has only a few black feathers and its bill is largely orange. SWT said the bird's lack of pigmentation was caused by a genetic condition called leucism. The trust manages the island as a wildlife reserve.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-57678621
 
Leucistic Puffin On Handa Island.

A rare white puffin has been spotted on a small island off the Sutherland coast in the Highlands.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) said the bird was first seen on Handa Island in mid-June by seabird fieldworker Dora Hamilton. The young puffin has only a few black feathers and its bill is largely orange. SWT said the bird's lack of pigmentation was caused by a genetic condition called leucism. The trust manages the island as a wildlife reserve.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-57678621
Thats just a seagull in disguise with a fake beak :p
 
A friend sent me some of her photographs to try and get some sort of clarity out of them, as her mobile phone camera was on the way out (caput in fact - as it was bought second hand anyway), so I managed to bring out as much detail as pixels would allow, and I came across this particular photograph of an Albino Squirrel in her garden - or, so she thought!
When I examined the photo later, I realised that Albino Squirrels have red eyes, whereas this one had a deep black eyes. After a bit of research I found that in fact she had a photo of a True White Squirrel. Just a pity her camera was on it's last, but luckily just managed to capture enough detail to pin it down.

I expect there's more out there somewhere by now.


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Is this a thing now where someone posts a picture of “X” and then someone else has to come back by stating “That isn’t an X”......as trends go I don’t think it will catch on!
 
Incredibly rare white sparrow pictured in Cardiff park.

The rare white-feathered bird was spotted near Roath Park.

An extremely rare white sparrow has been spotted in Cardiff. The unusual white-feathered bird was spotted in a garden near the city's Roath Park earlier in May.

The white sparrow was spotted with one of its more common counterparts when it was photographed. According to the RSPB, monitoring suggests a "severe decline" of the house sparrow population in the UK, estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with "substantial declines in both rural and urban populations".

White sparrows are even less common than white blackbirds. Leucism is a genetic condition which results in a partial loss of pigmentation and in birds the lack of cells responsible for melanin production often leaves their feathers white or washed out in colour.
(C) WoL. '22
 
A Swiss zoo now has the first albino giant Galapagos tortoise born in captivity.

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Rare albino giant Galapagos tortoise hatches at Swiss zoo

A Swiss zoo said the hatching of two giant Galapagos tortoise eggs at the facility came with an extra dose of surprise when one of the hatchlings turned out to be the first albino of its species ever observed in captivity. ...

"This is the first time in the world that an albino Galapagos tortoise has been born and kept in captivity," the zoo said in the birth announcement. "Albinism is rare in turtles with approximately one case per 100,000 individuals compared to approximately one case per 20,000 individuals in humans." ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...e-hatched-Tropiquarium-Servion/4331654550811/
 
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