Albino animals: photos please...

[tigerboi]

I saw an albino crocodile in the paper this morning & i thought what a good idea,albino photo thread...(cool joe?)....tb

 

[BIG BWACULL]

I saw an albino crocodile in the paper this morning & i thought what a good idea,albino photo thread...(cool joe?)....tb

Sorry to inform you but thats not a crocodile

 

[BIG BWACULL]

This posted in another thread but just as worthy a mention, i think its his/her cousin

 

[BIG BWACULL]

Oh Albino Sorry her ya are

 

[Sean K]

Is anyone else shaking their head?

 

[Rough_Trade]

Not quite an albino yet but give him time.

 

[karmatik]

Not quite an albino yet but give him time.

Now that made me laugh!!

 

[tigerboi]

Sorry to inform you but thats not a crocodile

Dur um good golly god gosh der um dat not a cwockadile

i said in the paper not here yet!!

but just for you smarty ill chuck in his cousin...

 

[tigerboi]

For all you numbskulls im not taking the piss,a fair dinkum albino thread...tb

 

[tigerboi]

To all you knuckle draggers...

 

[sam76]

from one of the funniest movies ever made.

 

[sam76]

Even this guy could be mistaken...

 

[2020hindsight]

well tb, sure was a fascination for Herman Melville as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

Moby Dick appeared in 1851, during an important period in American literature. The year before, Melville's good friend and neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne published his bestseller The Scarlet Letter. The year after, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, which would become the second best-selling book in America in the 19th century after the Bible.

Two actual events inspired Melville's tale. One was the sinking of the Nantucket whaling ship Essex, which foundered in 1820 after it was rammed by a large sperm whale 2,000 miles (3,700 km) from the western coast of South America. First mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, recorded the events in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. Already out-of-print, the book was rare even at the time.[2] Knowing that Melville, his son-in-law, was looking for it, Lemuel Shaw managed to find a copy and buy it for him. When Melville received it, he fell to it almost immediately, heavily annotating it.[3]

The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, who was usually encountered in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Riddled with dozens of harpoons from his numerous escapes from whalers, Mocha Dick often attacked ships with premeditated ferocity. One of his battles with a whaler served as subject for an article by Jeremiah N. Reynolds[4] in The Knickerbocker, New York Monthly Magazine, which Melville would likely have come across through his literary connections or during his time in New York City.[citation needed] Significantly, Reynolds writes a first-person narration that serves as a frame for the story of a whaling captain he meets. The captain resembles Ahab and suggests a possible symbolism for whales in that, when his crew first encounters Mocha Dick and cowers from him, the captain rallies them thus: "'Mocha Dick or the d----l [devil],' said I, 'this boat never sheers off from any thing that wears the shape of a whale.'"[5]

(white) Whale blowing "smoke rings" underwater

 

[MRC & Co]

A great documentary on albino animals is "Africas Outsiders".

Looks at a variety of albino animals, however the white lion on the documentary is truly majestic!

That MJ picture was hilarious! The Rudd one also!

 

[tigerboi]

funny photos in that thread if thats ok by the few who think this is a gee up....tb

 

[tigerboi]

20/20...here is one...tb