Photographers Found Rare Pink Hippo in Kenya’s Jungle
By Turjo, Gaea News NetworkMonday, October 4, 2010
MASAI MARA, KENYA (GaeaTimes.com) — If you are seeing pink hippos, don’t worry! You are not drunk. You are in Kenya where nature photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas spotted the unusual beast at Masai Mara.
In a post in their site, they have described how they saw a pink hippo on the banks of the Mara river while having a picnic breakfast.
“The hippo was clearly a young one since it was much smaller than the others in the group. It was also very shy and tended to stick close to its mother,”
Burrard-Lucas believes the hippo was not albino but “leucistic,” a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in the skin. Albinism means the absence of one specific type of pigment, melanin.
From double eared cats to orange and blue lobsters, and now a pink hippo!! Nature sure knows how to marvel us with her oddities. What do you think??
