Rare white giraffe found

[Diane_Windsor]

I though you guys might be interested in this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050908/sc_space/rarewhitegiraffephotographed


Here's the photo:
http://www.livescience.com/images/050908_white_giraffe_02.jpg

Neat isn't it?

Diane

 

[U R my Sonshine]

How cool. Amazing it has avoid predators for long. Very pretty.

 

[Witness Of His Love]

Very cool.

Looks like a big male.

 

[Witness Of His Love]

Found this pic of a white alligator taken in New Orleans Zoo in 2001. Hope he's okay.

 

[psalm25]

WOW that is so neat! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Orchids]

They look like albinos.

 

[Witness Of His Love]

They look like albinos.

The alligator is a true albino but the giraffe is considered by the one who took the picture not a true one because his legs are the normal brown spotted colors of other giraffes. I'm no expert in these matters, but the giraffe in the picture sure looks like an albino to me.

 

[keeptrying]

That was interesting and beautiful, thanks for posting it. BTW the albino alligator is alive and well.

 

[Witness Of His Love]

That was interesting and beautiful, thanks for posting it. BTW the albino alligator is alive and well.

Yeah...saw your post before I came to this one. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Reps to you for finding that story!

 

[mozzie]

Really - interesting!

 

[princessbunnyhop]

Wow, they are so beautiful! I love giraffes and aligators. I see them as some of God's most beautiful creatures but now I have seen the most beautiful of all!! I didn't know you could get albino's other then rabbits etc!


Bunny

 

[Chass]

ya it was

 

[encouraging loves animals]

a true albino has red eyes and pink marks around the eyes and is totally white.

Picture 1 is a true albino
Picture 2 is classified as a white because it has black eyes
Picture 3 is a white giraffe, it classified incorrectly.


if it was a true albino there would be no markings whatso ever

There are no true albino in horses-Yeah there partial eg occasional white arabians, pink muzzle skin, pink circles around eyes, but the eyes are black and cremello and perlinos-they have pink skin, white or blue eye.

The giraffe in that picture is a partial albino, as it still got some solid colour on the legs

 

[theothersideofthestory]

ahh that giraffe is sooooooooo cute...i love giraffes and kaolas..oh and wallabees

 

[Blank123]

oh wow, that is so cool

 

[PorcelainHeart]

It's beautiful, I didn't even know they had them.

 

[Linnis]

Poor thing, normally albino(sp?) animals don't live very long in the wild, either they get eaten or they die of sun burn.

Maybe God has a plan for this one.

 

[Daisysqueaks]

Pretty! I will have to tell my daughter about this. She just love giraffes

 

[GodsMerryLittleAngel]

wow, that is amazing. hey i think it was discovery.com that has footage of a rare species of cheetah. cheetahs are adorable