wild albinos!?

[gmcclurelssu]

over the weekend I was at my girlfriends house and found that her grandfather had found and captured a pair of albino garter snakes. i know that they aren't necessarily a popular pet species, but to find not one, but two albinos in the wild was pretty cool! has anyone else ever seen albinos in the wild?

[redpython]

you'd be surprised at how popular mutants are of any species.

did you keep them?

[gmcclurelssu]

yea, her grandfather is keeping them for now. they were pretty cool, i wouldn't have minded keeping them myself.

[DSGB]

im sure its a rarity to find albinos in the wild, they are easy targets for predators.

[gmcclurelssu]

thats what i was thinking. they were both the same size, so i'm sure they were from the same clutch and just got lucky

[PythonWallace]

That's really cool. Do you know what kind of garter they were? I once caught an albino bluegill in a creek. I kept it in my parent's koi pond while I was deciding what to do with it, but it jumped out and died. It was insane looking.

[gmcclurelssu]

not sure exactly, but it was still cool. they had 2 very small normal ones in the cage also, so it was cool to see the contrast.

an albino bluegill is something i have never seen before, and i imagine that was pretty sweet!

[BrucenBruce]

The only wild albino I ever saw, I was unable to catch as it sailed over my head in the parking lot of the local "Best Buy".

It was a big creme yellow bird with a rich orange tail - a red-tailed hawk.

Made my week.

~Bruce