For more than a decade, Charles Foley of the Wildlife Conservation Society looked for an incredibly rare white giraffe that people claimed to have seen in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park. Recently, Foley caught a glimpse (and a photo) of a white giraffe. From the Wildlife Conservation Society:
Foley first heard the tale of a white giraffe in 1993, when he began working in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park, where he conducts long-term research on the park's savanna elephant populations…
"Despite intensive searching, I never saw the giraffe," recalls Foley. "And by 1994, the sightings stopped coming in, so I assumed it had died, either at the hand of man or beast. I never stopped looking though…"
On a scientific note, Foley doubts that this white giraffe is the same one that others reported seeing in 1993, and is probably not a pure albino animal, but a leucistic animal, which means the animal is lighter than normal.
Link (via National Geographic)
