No matter how long you’ve lived on this earth, no matter how many weird and wonderful things you’ve seen, nature always finds a way to amaze you.
I’d consider myself pretty well travelled; I’ve been and done plenty of things, but I was truly amazed when I saw a video coming out of Garissa County, Kenya.
I’m not the only one, either. Local residents and conservationists watched on in utter amazement when they spotted two extremely rare white giraffes walking through the brush…
The unique breed, reportedly mother and child, were glimpsed at the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy and apparently suffer from a condition called ‘leucism’, a genetic disruption of pigmentation in skin cells.
According to British newspaper The Guardian, animals with leucism aren’t actually albinos.
“Unlike albinism, animals with leucism continue to produce dark pigment in their soft tissue, which explains the white giraffes’ dark eyes and other colouring.”
The Hirola Conservation Programme (HCP) were alerted to the presence of the giraffes in 2017, though this is to believed to mark the first time they’ve ever been caught on camera.
They’ve been listed as a ‘vulnerable’ species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with there only thought to be around 8,500 of their kind living in the wild.
In the video in question, both mother and baby can be seen as they make their way across the brush. At one point they walk past a regular giraffe, highlighting the vast differences they exhibit.
Watch the incredible footage in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qz2ivAd4kQ&t=34s
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