Rare White Giraffes Filmed In Kenya For The First Time

A pair of rare white giraffes, a mother and child, have been seen in Kenya and filmed for the first time.

Credit: Hirola Conservation Programme

Rangers from the Hirola Conservation Program were left stunned after the disclosure of a greatly unusual, snow white (leucistic) giraffe and her calf. Leucism is a condition in which prevents pigmentation in skin cells and results in a white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, however not the eyes.

Sightings of white giraffes have likewise been accounted for in Tanzania's Tarangire National stop, however the video embedded below from Kenya is the first known video footage of the rare, snow white giraffe.

As indicated by Hirola Conservation Programme, other than the video, just two known sightings have been made in Kenya and Tanzania. The first report of a white giraffe in the wild was in January 2016 in Tarangire National park, Tanzania and the second in March 2016 in Ishaqbini conservancy, Garissa county, Kenya.

It is thought that it is the first occasion anyone has filmed of the rare sighting.