In the provincial Russian town of Yaroslavl, some 250 kilometres north of the capital Moscow, a local zoo is experiencing what its officials are calling a 'white baby-boom'. Just a month after an albino kangaroo made its first public appearance from its mother's pouch, gathering a crowd of amused visitors, zoo goers were delighted again with the sight of a newly born albino fawn. The three week old fawn, which belongs to the Fallow deer species, born with light fur stands in contrast to her protective parents who bear a chestnut coat with white mottles. Albino deer are very rare in nature, with American naturalist John Bates, writing it has an estimated frequency of one in 20,000. Partially albino deer are a little more frequent. The newly born fawn in Yaroslavl zoo does not completely white, with the fur all over its body appearing slightly beige. But Yaroslavl zoo's head of hoofed mammals department, Natalia Sokolova, says the new addition to their animal family is a "white m... ( More) |
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