A photo from open sources
It turns out that pink elephants are found not only in children’s cartoons, but also in real life. So, three weeks ago in Kruger National Park in northeast South Africa Republic was born elephant calf light pink. Despite that adult elephants jealously guard their cubs, local ranger Timothy Jansen Van Vuuren managed to get closer to unusual animal and capture this little miracle on the camera.
Van Vuuren explains that the bizarre appearance of an elephant calf is caused by leukism – a mutation characterized by partial loss pigmentation of the outer cover. Unlike albinos, such animals have normal color eyes. Similar genetic failure It is very rare and remains for life.
According to the rangers, they had never watched anything before. like that. Timothy and his colleagues intend to provide pink the elephant reinforced protection so that it does not fall into the hands of poachers, hunting for unusual animals.
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