Discover albino mountain goats

Forest rangers in the Italian Alps have for the first time confirmed the existence of an albino mountain goat and named it Snowflake. They took a picture of this mountain goat climbing a mountain with his mother at an altitude of about 3,048 m in the area of ​​Val d'Aosta on June 24.

According to Christian Chioso, a regional wildlife conservation official, 'this is the only albino mountain goat recorded and seen'. He said albinism is rare in animals, and no documents have ever been reported to have occurred in mountain goats.

Chioso estimates this mountain goat is about 1 year old. Earlier, rangers were told by passersby that they saw a white animal in this high mountain, near the boundary of Big Paradise National Park, a park set up to protect mountain goats. Alps.

Photo of albino mountain goat and mother on Alps 24-6 (Photo: AP)

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