Photographer captures ultra-rare albino squirrel in snap he had wanted to take for two years
The self-employed plasterer added: 'I don't know if it's exactly the same one as before.
'Some people say there's one or two, some people say there's just one.
'After I saw it last time, I said I'd keep my eyes out for it. A lot of people say they have never seen, or even heard of, a white squirrel.'
Albinism is caused by a mutation in a gene that codes for pigmentation and the odds of squirrels being born white are said to be one in 100,000.
White squirrels are either albino or born with leucism, a mutated gene which turns them white but keeps their eyes black.
Experts say that white squirrels are more vulnerable to attack from predators as they have no natural camouflage.
'Some people say there's one or two, some people say there's just one.
'After I saw it last time, I said I'd keep my eyes out for it. A lot of people say they have never seen, or even heard of, a white squirrel.'
Albinism is caused by a mutation in a gene that codes for pigmentation and the odds of squirrels being born white are said to be one in 100,000.
White squirrels are either albino or born with leucism, a mutated gene which turns them white but keeps their eyes black.
Experts say that white squirrels are more vulnerable to attack from predators as they have no natural camouflage.
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20 October 2023
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