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African giraffes - owners variegated light brown skin, which is great for the area where they live. Therefore, when a researcher wildlife Charles Foley first heard of the white giraffe (he had studied elephants in Tanzania), it could not pay attention to it.





Local residents told the "giraffe-ghost", stands out among fellow snow-white skin. The researcher did not know whether to believe the rumors until he saw with his own eyes the unusual giraffe 12 years later.





Since then, the white giraffes noticed in several countries across southern Africa. A small number of "ghost" found in Niger giraffes - is that there lives about 200 individuals. White giraffes are extremely rare. Their skin is white because of the classic albinism - a condition in which the skin and hair, completely lacking pigment.

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