Albino Moose

[jonmzak]

I have no idea where or when these pictures were taken I just thought they were cool and would share them.

[Realtree]

I've seen many different kinds of "Albino" animals, but can't say that I have ever seen an Albino Moose. Interesting.

Thanks for sharing jonmzak

[jonmzak]

Heres a couple of the calf

[Fawkinnae]

Wow it's an appaloosa baby moosa.
(Sorry about that.)

[Mayfly]

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- A group of eastern Idahoans smitten by a white moose have persuaded the state to make the animal off-limits to hunters. Steve Huffaker, director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, made an emergency order last week making it illegal to shoot the albino cow moose, which has been spotted with a black calf on private land in southeastern Idaho.

Albino moose have been showing up in the area for several years, said Dale Toweill, trophy species manager for the fish and game department. Normally, only 1 in 100,000 moose have the albino trait, which is recessive. But the gene appears to run in the herd in southeastern Idaho, where Toweill theorizes the probability of an albino moose may be 1 in 10,000.

Protecting a single animal is not unprecedented. Alaska game officials voted in August to protect a rare white bear there after concerned residents flooded them with e-mails and phone calls.

[jonmzak]

I wonder how long that trait will be common in that herd with wolf reintroduction? ???

[holdemtwice]

those are some of the coolest pictures i have seen. thank you for sharing them. i have never seen an albino moose before today.