Albino animals have no melanin pigment in their skin or eyes, making their skin look pale-coloured and their irises red. Two wildlife photographers found this albino flapshell turtle in Telangana, India.
A rare albino Indian flapshell turtle has been discovered in Telangana in southern India.
Wildlife photographers Manoj Kumar Vittapu and Shravan Kumar Poshetty discovered the newly hatched turtle – which was 4 centimetres long and 3 centimetres wide – near a freshwater pond in Sirnapalli forest. , a wildlife biologist at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad, studied their photos of the hatchling and identified it as an Indian flapshell turtle with albinism.Albino animals have no melanin pigment in their skin or eyes, making their skin pale-coloured and their irises red. “A gene that plays a role in the production of pigments mutates and fails to function properly,” says Narayana.
Indian flapshell turtles can live for up to 18 years, but being albino, this particular individual may not survive as long, says Narayana. “Lacking a full complement of eye pigments, true albinos often have poor eyesight and are unusually sensitive to sunlight,” he says. Some albino animals are also
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