https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/05/camera-trap-snaps-photo-of-first-known-albino-giant-panda/Using a motion-activated camera, scientists at Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China have snapped a blurry but unprecedented photograph of the world’s first known albino giant panda.
The all-white giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was photographed in April as it was roaming through a bamboo forest at an altitude of 2,000 meters, according to a press release issued by the local conservation authority. The park in which the panda was observed, Wolong National Nature Reserve, is located in the southwest Chinese province of Sichuan.
It looks like the real Winnie The Pooh.
All-white creature identified as rare albino porcupine
SOURCE (With PHoto): https://www.apnews.com/7136bf2b0da4489caa4cb8704f05e4f6A curious visitor to a Maine train museum that resembled a white throw pillow or perhaps a lost toupee turned out to be a rare albino porcupine.
The young rodent turned up Tuesday at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, perplexing the staff, who sought help identifying it via social media. The consensus was it’s an albino porcupine.
The Portland Press Herald reports the animal appeared to be a baby because its quills had not yet hardened. A spokeswoman for the museum said midday Wednesday that it hadn’t yet been seen again, but it was assumed to be lurking in the area.
... About one of every 10,000 of the species is an albino porcupine.
(c)BBC.'19A rare white squirrel has been photographed in Royal Deeside.
Experts said it was believed to be a red rather than a grey squirrel as it had the hairy ear tufts absent in greys.
The squirrel was snapped by conservationists working to protect red squirrel populations in the north east of Scotland.
They said they would now work to determine whether or not the animal was a "true albino" with red eyes.
Conservationist Dr Gwen Maggs said: "We will set up some remote cameras to try and get some better pictures with a clear view of its eyes.
"In any event, this is a rare and exciting discovery."
(C) BBC. '19Claire Brimacombe was walking through a park in East Sussex last February, when her eyes suddenly fell on a white squirrel.
After she kept on the seeing the unusual rodent - only one in 100,000 are born albino - in the Alfriston park, she decided to start recording the sightings, noting apparent hotspots for them in the county.
Now a website she set up records white squirrel sightings from across the UK, and Claire has appealed for help in investigating why there seem to be so many across the country.
My stupid camera had auto focus, which meant that it tried so hard to keep the background in focus at the expense of what is directly in front and I couldn't override it. Anyway, there was something on the buddleia that was blurry enough to be a spider "ghost", but I've never had a spider rear up its front legs at me before when I tried to take a photo. There was a colony of albino scorpions at my local railway station (more common in the UK than people realise) but the body-shape here says garden spider even though the waving front legs were big enough to be claws.
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That isn't an albino though, it's a Crab Spider.
http://uksafari.com/crabspider.htm
Okay, hands up everyone who's seen a crab spider ("common in the Southern half of the UK") before.
As they eat bees I guess the Buddleia was a good spot to lurk (even though the spider was pure white).
Um, I may speak for other arachnophobes as well as myself when I say that it's probably just as well the spider wasn't in focus . . .My stupid camera had auto focus, which meant that it tried so hard to keep the background in focus at the expense of what is directly in front and I couldn't override it.
I don't know either, Michael59, but in my imagination they are GIGANTIC!how large do they get?
I've never seen one before. You can't tell by the picture, so I'm wondering how common are they and how large do they get?
I don't know either, Michael59, but in my imagination they are GIGANTIC!
That's very odd. Where abouts do you live?Mine too.
Back in in 1993, I was renting a small house. It had one of those sheds made of tin in the back yard. A white spider the size of a tarantula (I kid you not) made a web across the doors in the front and it was so thick we had a hard time breaking it apart. One of the neighborhood kids killed the white spider. I remember watching him as he did it, he was freaking out, I mean literally losing a grip on reality as he did this. He was screaming and jumping around as he mashed it into the ground. It was disturbing to watch. I think he was more afraid of spiders than I am.
It was the first time in my life I had ever seen a white spider.
That's very odd. Where abouts do you live?
Um, I may speak for other arachnophobes as well as myself when I say that it's probably just as well the spider wasn't in focus . . .
Bad Bungle, if you want to take a picture of an albino butterfly or bee or something, see if your camera has something like a macro lens function.