I know you'll be delighted to know that an albanistic "Fliegand Porker" was
sighted over Paul Brown Stadium May 11th. It was noted that they are about as
rare as Cincinnati Bengal victories.
        Art

Don Barclay wrote:

> Yep, I've seen an albino armadillo, too.  And an albino BLACK egret,
> because there are no white ones in Samoa, and a white crow, and, er...
> I haven't seen a white octopus.  At least, not one that would stay white
> for very long.  An interesting shell that I find pretty often is a white
> nerite,
> kind of like Nerita polita, but I won't go into it's name yet.  About one
> out of 50 or maybe 100 is solid white, but the operc is normal, and
> usually very dark.  The funny thing is that there are no "almost white"
> shells.  There are lots of black or very dark shells, and quite a few that
> are multicolored, brown, red, striped, etc.  The fact that there are no
> in-between forms approaching white leads me to figure that these are
> probably albinos.  I tried to see if the last one I found had pink eyes,
> but he wouldn't open his itty-bitty eyes for me...
>
> Don
> Pago Pago
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ferreter" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:28 AM
> Subject: albinistics VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!
>
> albinistics,,,, In a recent thread about albinisic nautilii the question
> slipped out of my higher cortex and had me ponder some awe- inspiring
> quiries. Do all fauna have the pigment deficincy such as the albino nautilus
> ? can't an armidillo be an albino, an octopi , a strombus a white egret (how
> would you tell?) or even a dog(canine domesticana )    just a question,
> weasel