Don’t let her strange, white color fool you – the white giraffe below is not albino.
But she is beautiful, nonetheless.
Extremely rare white giraffe spotted in Tanzania National Park: https://t.co/x1meNhe2Cp pic.twitter.com/5ZZQkN1usf
— ABC News (@ABC) January 26, 2016
The rare white giraffe – named Omo, after a popular brand of detergent in the area – was first spotted last year in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park. But it was recently seen and photographed again.
Posted by I-Love-Africa on Monday, January 25, 2016
According to CBS News, experts say that Omo gets her unusual coloration simply because her body’s surface cells are not capable of making pigment, meaning she is leucistic, rather than albino.
Derek Lee, principal scientist at Wild Nature Institute (WNI), told CBS News that Omo is only the second record of a white giraffe in Tarangire over the past 20 years.
