In Sweden found absolutely white moose

A Swedish elk has recently become a celebrity simply because he is completely white! The animal was videotaped in värmland County in southwest Sweden.

Councilman Hans Nilsson three years trying to capture the rare moose. And finally he did it! The Swede made a video when the elk passed through a small forest river. The skin of the moose is white, even the horns are shining white.

Despite the absolutely white in color moose, he does not suffer from albinism — the loss of pigmentation. The albino — animals, people, light or pink eyes. Moose with bright white fur often gets the color from a recessive gene. More often the animals are white with brown spots — peg.

Although people don't often see white moose compared to their brown cousins, the rollers, these animals appeared on the Network before.

In late June, two white moose-filmed in Norway. From the video it is unclear whether moose albinos or piebald.

Joran Eriksson — specialist in elk from Swedish agricultural University. He says the white moose becomes more and more. According to the data available to Eriksson, moose in Scandinavia is almost not faced with predators, except for humans.

"The hunters not to kill the moose's bright colors," says Eriksson. In other words, as white animals protect, a recessive gene is transmitted and moose-ghosts becoming more and more. "It's like the breeding of dogs," explains Eriksson.

White elk was also observed in Alaska and Canada. Canadian hunters are forbidden to kill an elk, if he is white more than 50 %.

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