Posted on 10/06/2020 12:22:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The first-ever albino shark has been captured off Britain, near the Isle Of Wight, British news agency SWNS reports. Jason Gillespie was deep-sea fishing in the area when he spotted the remarkable three-foot tope shark.
Ive been fishing for 30 years and Ive never seen one like that, Gillespie, 50, said. Its the fish of a lifetime, one in a million.
The tope shark, or school shark, has a condition called leucism that results in loss of pigmentation. Leucism occurs when some or all pigment cells fail to develop during differentiation, so part or all of the animals body surface lacks cells capable of making pigment.
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Racist shark.
white privilege?
Has he apologized for his privilege yet?
Brown fisherman...
Wow.
Adam Schiff is really a shark?
Jimmy Durante..... Mammy!
Oh the shark’s white,
with his teeth dear,
and he keeps them,
pearly white...
My wife has some underwater shots of an albino Whale Shark that she took while diving in the Galapagos Islands around 15 years ago. They might have been the first such pictures ever taken.
It’s a one-of-a-kind, so let’s kill it.
Throw him back, SpongeBob’s going to miss him.
It wasn't killed. From the article:
After photographing the shark for what he said was less than a minute, the Waterlooville, Hampshire resident released the shark back into the ocean.
Caught near the Isle of Wight, no less. Coincidence? I think NOT!
I’m sure the white shark had no problem getting laid.
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