“Unveiling Nature’s Rare Mysteries: Meet the Enigmatic Albino Animals Defying the Odds in the Wild!”
All turkeys can carry a recessive gene that can result in their being born with white feathers. They still have pigment in their skin, just not as much as their friends! Researchers think about one in every 100,000 turkeys will be born white, so this is still a rare sighting.
This Albino Chipmunk Is Too Cute
We bet you thought chipmunks couldn’t get any cuter, right? Think again. While brown chipmunks aren’t unusual, all white ones like this little guy are. “Only a small percentage of animals carry the recessive gene, so the chance of the pairing of recessive genes in an individual animal is slight,” according to the Missouri Conservationist magazine
While it’s rare, keep your eyes open when you’re taking a stroll through the park. You might just catch a glimpse of one.
Migaloo the Humpback Whale Might Have Produced Albino Offspring
Meet Migaloo. Migaloo is an albino humpback whale first spotted in Australian waters in 1991, where he made quite the big splash (sorry). Albino humpback whales are extremely rare, but researches believe that Migaloo may have fathered not one, but two, albino calves!
MJ and Migaloo Jr. have been making sporadic appearances along the eastern coast of Australia. Seeing a whale is already an incredible experience, so it’s hard to imagine what seeing an albino whale would be like.
