Mike Holding, a wildlife cameraman filming a documentary for the BBC in northern Botswana, came across one of the rarest sights in the animal world – a pink elephant. The cub, which was hiding under its mother for protection, was only sighted for a few moments, but the journalist managed to get a few snapshots ... |
20 March 2009 11:51 GMT |
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While steering his boat on an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, 42 year-old charter boat captain Erik Rue saw what few had seen before him – a pink dolphin. All the passengers on his boat spotted the magnificent creature too, and someone was quick enough to snap a picture. Although it may look unnatural and out of... |
3 March 2009 08:57 GMT |
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The killer whale, or orca, is one of those animals with an unmistakable color pattern that cannot fool even an uninitiated person. But now, researchers have taken pictures of a white killer whale near the Aleutian Islands (western Alaska). The beast of the myths turned into reality."I had heard about this whale, but ... |
8 March 2008 05:46 GMT |
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Albino individuals usually do not survive in nature, that's why they are such a rare view. Recently an albino ibex goat has been spotted in the Italian Alps. Now Erik Rue, a charter-boat captain from Lake Charles, Louisiana, has come with photographs of a rare pink dolphin, captured on images a couple of weeks a... |
5 July 2007 14:21 GMT |
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Domestic goat kids can be white and fluffy (depending on the case). But that's normal, and this is a genetic pattern that does not match the genetic condition of albinism, when the brown melanin pigment cannot be synthesized. But now, forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have confirmed and got image proof... |
26 June 2007 05:28 GMT |
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You may have heard about white tigers, but white ... alligators!?...Yes, they do exist and are almost impossible to be found in nature as they would be extremely vulnerable to predators or the sun. Around US, there are 50 albino individuals. One albino 12-years old female is exposed at the Knoxville Zoo. An albino la... |
14 May 2007 02:50 GMT |
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