Rare White Giraffes Are Filmed in Kenya

Kenyan conservationists for the first time have shot a couple of white giraffes with the condition that inhibits pigmentation in skin cells (leucism). It happened in Kenya’s Garissa County.

Kenyan conservationists for the first time have shot a couple of white giraffes with the condition that inhibits pigmentation in skin cells (leucism). It happened in Kenya’s Garissa County. Local conservationists and residents were extremely happy about this fact.

The giraffes, a mother and child, are ill with a rare genetic condition known as leucism. Not like albinism, animals who suffer from leucism keep on producing dark pigments in soft tissue. It explains the white giraffes’ coloring and dark eyes.

The Hirola Conservation Programme (HCP) manages that area. It is an NGO which deals with preserving the seriously in danger of extinction hirola antelope, which is one of the rarest on the planet.

The HCP issued a particular post that the giraffes were first reported to park rangers in June 2017 by a local village dweller.

“They were so close and tremendously calm and seemed not troubled by our presence. The mother kept on pacing back and forth a several yards in front of us while signaling her baby giraffe to hide behind the bushes,” informs Tuko News.

HCP declares that this newest footage is only the third identified detection of a white giraffe.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed reticulated giraffes as “vulnerable.” Presently, there are almost 8,550 giraffes in the wild. They can be mostly found in southern Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya.