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Albinism is an innate melanin deficiency that results in a lack of color in skin, hair, fur, and the iris of the eye. In people, there is one albino in every 20 thousand newborns. Strangely, in Africa, to the South of the Sahara, they are born way more often. It is also interesting that not just people can be albino — animals can be albino too. It’s probably not easy to be a white tiger, a white owl, or a white giraffe in the wild world.

70 Cool & Weird Animals Around the World, including unique mammals, strange amphibians, unusual nocturnal animals, weird birds, & more!

These are some of the deadliest species on earth that you definitely don’t want to come in contact with!

Every animal is unique. Even though we like to put a whole animal species under one umbrella, each cat or dog is very different from the other. Just because one cat doesn't like to be touched doesn't mean all cats are like that. And that goes for their physical features as well. No, I am

Most of us don't grasp the variety of animals species that inhabit the Earth today, and some even get surprised as they find out there's an animal they haven't heard of before. But seriously now - out of 1,367,555 identified non-insect animal species that live on Earth today, how do you expect to know every single one of them? Inspired by reddit, we put together a selection of 22 animals you probably didn't know existed.

Males also exhibit two large, frontally directed air sacs of olive-green skin and yellow combs. Both are inflated during breeding display. Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.