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OT but of interest...

Quigs

Quigs

"Got R Did"
:-offtopic
Eye candy for the genetic geeks.

I just recieved this in an email from my sister.

Original email content below, please let it be known these are NOT mine nor my sisters words...

"THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN NEAR GORDON, WI

Not just any mother bear and her cub, but a black bear with a white cub.
I don't know how rare it is for a black bear to have a white cub but at
least we can say we've seen it no matter how rare it is!

I'm pretty sure the Indian community would go nuts over this. Kind of
like a white buffalo. Since there seems to be no sign of a pink nose or eyes, I would say that it is not an albino.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos!"

Now for the pics...

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I do not have trained eye, but these do not looked photoshopped to me. I also don't know how long this has been in circulation, maybe some have already seen this but I found it to be very interesting!

First thought that came to my mind was leucistic. I zoomed in on the pics and it appears the bear cub does indeed have dark eyes, not red. But why the black nose, although it also appears to me that the nose does lack some of the intense black pigment.

Any thoughts?

Rich, sorry again for being off topic. I thought it was revelvant for a genetic discussion.
 
The interesting thing with these bears is - they are not typical Albinos cause they don't have red eyes.
I saw someting about them in TV in the last few weeks... don't know excactly.
Nice animals.
 
The same thing has happend in a population of deer located in Upstate NY. I lived across the street from the seneca army depot in Romulus, NY. THey have the largest population of white deer anywhere. THis has happend due to the deer being in an enclose darea for sucha long time. BEcause of inbreeding the recessive trait now shows up as much as the "normal morph". Here is a link to a website that has a couple of pictures of them.
http://www.senecawhitedeer.org/
http://www.winecountrycabins.com/to_do/wildlife/deerwhite.htm
 
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