r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ComfortablePast15 • 9d ago

/r/all of a rat

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u/humburga 9d ago

If it wasn't for the tail I thought it was an albino beaver

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u/Clessasaur 9d ago

Gonna be slightly pendantic, but all white animals with normal looking eyes are leucistic and not albino!

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u/humburga 9d ago

Leucistic. I learnt a new word today

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u/Cant-Think-Of 9d ago

There is also melanism, which is essentially the opposite.

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u/humburga 9d ago

Sorry i can only learn 1 new word a day

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u/YOD3R0 9d ago

Just means you've got multiple days of cool animal pics, here's more Xanthism, Erythrism, Axanthic, and Piebald are all really cool morphs