Animal encounters are a permanent fixture on our social media feeds, but can you imagine spotting a huge alligator on a golf course, or finding a green puppy in your litter, or holding a yellow turtle? This isn’t the only recent sighting of an extremely rare animal. After all that we know about the wild world, it is still capable of amazing us daily
1. Yellow Turtle
In October, a bright yellow turtle got caught in a fisherman’s net in West Bengal, India. The Indian flap shell turtle is normally green in color, but this one made waves because of pigmentation loss due to genetic mutation, Shailendra Singh of Indian Programme Director of Turtle Survival Alliance told The Times of India.
The rescued turtle was compared to melted cheese online. And it isn’t the only time a yellow turtle was spotted in the country—just a few months ago, villagers in Odisha also found this unusual freshwater species and handed it over to the forest department.
2. Black Panther & Leopard
An Indian wildlife photographer waited for six days to capture this incredible sight of a black panther, Saaya, with his mate Cleopatra, a leopardess. Clicked in the winter of 2019 at the Kabini Forest Reserve in Karnataka, Mithun H. released the photos in July and impressed the world with this majestic coupling.
The Bengaluru-based photographer said” “I got them on camera quite a few times earlier when they would be together once a year for mating. But this recent one was special because of that perfect moment when they both turned together without a care in the world and the fact that so much patience and work had gone behind that image,” he expressed.
3. Green Pup
An Italian farmer in Sardinia was pleasantly surprised when his mixed-breed dog Spelacchia gave birth to five dogs, one of them green in color. Reuters reported that Pistachio was born on October 9, to a mix-breed mother along with four brothers and sisters who all had white fur. The rare fur, which is caused by a green pigment called biliverdin, was starting to fade as he grew older, but this shade of color on the pup surely brightened some days on social media.
4. Two-Headed Snake
In Florida, a house cat brought a gift for its humans—an out-of-ordinary two-headed snake. The black racer snake is commonly found in Florida and is not venomous. Palm Harbor resident Kat Rogers informed in a Facebook post that her daughter had named the new friend Dos (Spanish for “two”) and that he was having trouble coordinating his two heads.
5. Snake Albinos
In the wіɩd, this snake remains гагe. Albinos are typically white with pink or red eyes, while this cobra’s nearly black eyes suggest a leucistic trait with a blue tint. One of the most beautiful cobras this year!
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