Super rare sight: Albino white-eared opossum



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When the dogs bark, there's something to check. This time, however, we didn't have much time to photograph this incredibly rare encounter. We are fortunate to have all sorts of animals in our ranch, from birds to marsupials. After a quick photo our little fella was left alone and the dogs put back into their kennel. We don't want to disturb its routine.

I'm talking about a white-eared opossum, but not the normal one. It's an albino. This happens when a living being (humans/animals) don't produce enough melanin. This condition is considered rare in nature, thus, spoting an albino opossum required us to step away.

Fortunatelly I ended up with a photo to tell the story.


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Wow, what a rare sight indeed.
Beautiful creature, great you could get a capture of it.

First time I saw one like that. It's impressive that we have so many animals in our land considering the property is almost inside town.