White moose
Posted in: Miscellanea on Feb 17
Jen sent me this picture of a white moose taken near Drayton Valley:
According this this essay:
"The white moose is neither albino, nor a separate species or subspecies, they have brown eyes and brown dots on their fur. These rare moose resulted from mating between both a bull and cow carrying an altered recessive gene (Macintosh, 2002).
And from over here we find that the occurrence is something like 1 in 100,000, but higher in areas where the gene is more prevalent.
Posted by Gene Smith on Feb 17, 2006
