Too perfect to be real! If it is real, that's the closest thing to perfection I've ever seen.
GeoTerraTestudo said:In the wild, an albino sea turtle like this one would be a sitting duck for a tiger shark. More vulnerable to blindness and skin cancer, too.
EricIvins said:GeoTerraTestudo said:In the wild, an albino sea turtle like this one would be a sitting duck for a tiger shark. More vulnerable to blindness and skin cancer, too.
You have proof of this how?
GeoTerraTestudo said:EricIvins said:GeoTerraTestudo said:In the wild, an albino sea turtle like this one would be a sitting duck for a tiger shark. More vulnerable to blindness and skin cancer, too.
You have proof of this how?
Well, as I mentioned above, leucistic and albino animals in the wild are more likely to get eaten because they lack camouflage, and in both the wild and in captivity, they are more likely to have their skin or eyes damaged by the sun because they lack pigmentation to absorb UV radiation.
EricIvins said:Again, as I mentioned, you have first hand accounts of this how? Granted there may have been long term studies done that I have not come across, but last I researched only a few very short term studies have been done on Leucistic animals that are no where near complete...