VIDEO: Moose with rare white coloration caught on camera in Canada
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A Newfoundland man captured video of a "once in a lifetime" encounter with a moose that's almost entirely white in coloration.
Gerard Gale posted a video to Facebook showing the unusual moose he spotted Monday in Black Duck Siding, near Stephenville.
The nearly all-white animal is known as a piebald moose. Experts said piebald moose have previously been misidentified as albino. They said albino characteristics, a lack of pigment, are generally not passed down directly to offspring, whereas piebald, which features a pattern of pigmented spots on white hair, feathers, or scales, appears to have a genetic component.
"Once in a lifetime for me being 3ft away and almost touching distance at one point," Gale wrote.
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