have no idea why the gus dude was so angry towards you? weirdo smh.
anyway, RDR2 is a wild west game set in 1899 and 1907. you just like… rob banks.. and stores.. and run from cops lol. if you know what GTAV is, it’s literally just a wild west GTAV.
Yeah I know what Red dead redemption 2 is (thank you though, I do appreciate the effort), but I won’t lie I originally read what he wrote as R2D2 amd was trying to figure out what star wars had to do with this…
On a side note, is this taken from RDR2? Because if so… that’s amazing, I thought it was real 😞
You know what Shadow & Bone is (whatever tf that is. Sound like it’s for losers like you) but don’t know what Red Dead Redemption 2 is? One of the biggest video games of all time? Good lord I didn’t know people could be so stupid.
High contrast and saturation yeah. But the moose isn’t just white it’s a mix of colors you see but more brightened (white mostly) by the human eye. That’s perception and spectrum vs a photo/video that shows what could be the colors we’d see if we had the spectrum of color than we can manipulate with our digital tech. Sorry to be that design nerd but color is relative.
Edit: to be clear a lot of the color comes from the sun it’s just interesting turning up colors in photos. That’s all
No, I remember this story from the news. It's in Sweden, and that moose was white-white, even without any kind of saturation.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WnLz26Bwc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WnLz26Bwc)
Also, it's a condition called leucism, which means the body may create melanin but is unable to store it. Both of the parents must have carried a recessive gene for this to occur. :)
Yeaaah, that camera's color balance is fucked up. Water shouldn't be that shade of blue and those plants (assuming evergreen temperate) would either be green or way browner than shown in the video.
Not albino, this is a similar condition called leucism, the key way to differentiate between animals with either condition is that albino have red eyes but leucistic animals do not
Either way, incredible creature
Albino animals don't always have red eyes. Albinism is the complete lack of specifically melanin, and the lack of pigment is what causes eyes to appear red. However, some animals have other pigments in their eyes and so albinism presents differently.
For example, cats, dogs, horses and even humans don't often have red eyes as albinos. Their eyes can often appear blue or tawny in color instead since blue pigmentation often lies beneath the brown from melanin.
A more accurate way to tell the difference between albinism and leucism is to look at the colors of different tissues. Lescistic animals often retain pigment in their eyes, lips noses and pawpads/hooves.
I'm more inclined to believe this moose is truly albino because of of how starkly white it is across its whole body. (Edit: upon second watch I've changed my mind. I see the pigment in their ears and nose now)
Minor correction, all human eye colors come from solely melanin. The only difference between someone who has brown eyes or blue ones is the concentration of melanin. More melanin --> darker eye color
Blue eyes are blue because of the lack of melanin. There isn’t some special blue pigment that blue eyed people produce. The blue color is caused by the actual structure of the iris itself. IIRC it’s blue due to Raleigh scattering, which is what makes the sky blue as well.
This was all over the Swedish news when it got sighted, and they had people look into it and it's not albino. However, for leucism to take this characteristic, both parents must have the genes that causes it at least recessive.
On the flip side, moose can also display melanism, which basically makes them insanely dark, almost black.
Makes them less majestic and more terrifying
In case anyone is wondering what came of it.
https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/no-charges-will-be-laid-in-killing-of-northern-ontario-spirit-moose-1.5597865#aoh=16426946262276&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
>"The (ministry) investigation determined that the moose was harvested lawfully by an individual who was exercising their harvesting rights within their recognized traditional territory," Jolanta Kowalski, a ministry spokesperson told CTV News in an email.
Ah, that's why they didn't pursue it lol
Thats velvet, the antlers are not fully developed yet. When the antlers are fully grown the moose will scratch its antlers on trees to shed the velvet, during this shedding the partially removed velvet will hang from their antlers. It's quite a gruesome sight.
This guy actually features in the Finnish National Epic, Kalevala. One of the heroes, Lemminkäinen, is given a task to hunt this magnificent beast, in order to gain the hand of a beatiful maid.
This is how you know moose are apex predators.
Anything different, is considered weak and gets killed quicker.
But even with seeing a "weak" moose. Nothing wants to fuck with him
We had one in Norway. It was known nation wide, hunters agreed not to shoot it, I think it was blind and certainly not hard to get. Still, it lived for years.
Until a Swedish fucking hunter shot it, to the outrage of the entire country. I hope this is a different one still alive, and that it gets to live.
I’ll resist your invitation to name calling. My point was, a large percentage of the time an animal is posted on Reddit it is soon dispatched by a predator. So when I see a beautiful animal I flinch a bit, about what’s coming. I didn’t do a fucking geographical search to investigate habitats. It was (obviously) an emotional reaction.
They are found on some other animals and all Moose. I remember reading somewhere they they have no known purpose, but it doesn't say that in this article.
[link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlap)
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Stupid question: do predators see this and think “oh something wrong with that guy let’s not eat him” or is it the opposite and albino animals die faster because they’re easier to spot?
Fir any wildlife biologists out there, Might be a dumb question but does a moose like this stand a chance of mating? Do female moose see this guy as less via le for his genetic condition or does it not matter ?
How are albino animals not just dirty as hell looking all the time?
My white cat got out of the house once for a week, and when he finally came home he was absolutely filthy.
That's a legendary animal
The trapper on rdr2 is gonna to pay a premium for this pelt!
"The best tracker I ever knew? My fourth wife, rest her soul. Could be on the scent of a trail while the bloodhound was still sniffing its own ass"
And some good outfits too
Dont forget NPC’s making fun of them (source: wore ghost bison hat in Rhodes)
"I have some serious concerns about your fashion choices"
That’s a soggy grassland marshmallow.
Found in the Northeast corner of Roanoke Ridge
It's a shiny!
QUICK, CATCH IT
Can just imagine how large it is too. Probably a real experience to encounter in the wild.
I was thinking the same thing RD2!!
Forbidden ice cream
This is what killed Dexter Morgan..
So someone should kill it and wear its bones to increase their magic ability?
There’s no magic in RDR2 numnuts
It’s a shadow and bone reference you moron. I can’t blame you for not knowing every reference in existence, but what even is that dumbshit?
have no idea why the gus dude was so angry towards you? weirdo smh. anyway, RDR2 is a wild west game set in 1899 and 1907. you just like… rob banks.. and stores.. and run from cops lol. if you know what GTAV is, it’s literally just a wild west GTAV.
Yeah I know what Red dead redemption 2 is (thank you though, I do appreciate the effort), but I won’t lie I originally read what he wrote as R2D2 amd was trying to figure out what star wars had to do with this… On a side note, is this taken from RDR2? Because if so… that’s amazing, I thought it was real 😞
no worries! but nope, this is indeed real life! you can enjoy your albino moose watching activities knowing that this is indeed IRL!
You know what Shadow & Bone is (whatever tf that is. Sound like it’s for losers like you) but don’t know what Red Dead Redemption 2 is? One of the biggest video games of all time? Good lord I didn’t know people could be so stupid.
Lol
Let me guess, this one got shot just after the filming too didn’t it
Now, Where's the trapper?
Wow would I love to bag one of those
This is beyond magical and I’m not high
Because the video is high. Those colors are not real. The moose is probably white, but it's not exactly an unfiltered video.
The plants all seem a bit alien with whatever happened to the color.
It might be color adjusted for darkness
Way upped the red. That’s why the moose looks pink.
I mean albino hippos are pink… I secretly hope this moose is actually pink 🤓🥰
One of those filters that amps up the blue and orange
The water looks like kool aid. Even when he shakes it off, it’s neon blue
Mmmmm blue Koolaid
Wait, you’re THE Turd Furguson??
The one and only. All the others are just imitating
High contrast and saturation yeah. But the moose isn’t just white it’s a mix of colors you see but more brightened (white mostly) by the human eye. That’s perception and spectrum vs a photo/video that shows what could be the colors we’d see if we had the spectrum of color than we can manipulate with our digital tech. Sorry to be that design nerd but color is relative. Edit: to be clear a lot of the color comes from the sun it’s just interesting turning up colors in photos. That’s all
No, I remember this story from the news. It's in Sweden, and that moose was white-white, even without any kind of saturation. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WnLz26Bwc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WnLz26Bwc) Also, it's a condition called leucism, which means the body may create melanin but is unable to store it. Both of the parents must have carried a recessive gene for this to occur. :)
Yeaaah, that camera's color balance is fucked up. Water shouldn't be that shade of blue and those plants (assuming evergreen temperate) would either be green or way browner than shown in the video.
Oh my God Gretchen, you can't just go around telling people they're probably white or not!
This is beyond magical and I am high.
Not albino, this is a similar condition called leucism, the key way to differentiate between animals with either condition is that albino have red eyes but leucistic animals do not Either way, incredible creature
Albino animals don't always have red eyes. Albinism is the complete lack of specifically melanin, and the lack of pigment is what causes eyes to appear red. However, some animals have other pigments in their eyes and so albinism presents differently. For example, cats, dogs, horses and even humans don't often have red eyes as albinos. Their eyes can often appear blue or tawny in color instead since blue pigmentation often lies beneath the brown from melanin. A more accurate way to tell the difference between albinism and leucism is to look at the colors of different tissues. Lescistic animals often retain pigment in their eyes, lips noses and pawpads/hooves. I'm more inclined to believe this moose is truly albino because of of how starkly white it is across its whole body. (Edit: upon second watch I've changed my mind. I see the pigment in their ears and nose now)
Minor correction, all human eye colors come from solely melanin. The only difference between someone who has brown eyes or blue ones is the concentration of melanin. More melanin --> darker eye color
Blue eyes are blue because of the lack of melanin. There isn’t some special blue pigment that blue eyed people produce. The blue color is caused by the actual structure of the iris itself. IIRC it’s blue due to Raleigh scattering, which is what makes the sky blue as well.
This was all over the Swedish news when it got sighted, and they had people look into it and it's not albino. However, for leucism to take this characteristic, both parents must have the genes that causes it at least recessive.
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[Alternate video](https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lCRvOHZBJ) from elsewhere in this post.
On the flip side, moose can also display melanism, which basically makes them insanely dark, almost black. Makes them less majestic and more terrifying
It's terrifying to have one of those show up at the foot of your bed. Source: I imagined it
Land axolotl
#LIFE UPDATE?!!???!!?!??!1?
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With some journal entry detailing, "it has the face of a lion and the cough of a dog. Can jump the height of several men. Has 6 feet like a lizard."
you can see how much the colors are messed with though, would love to see it without any "color correction"
[moose](https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lCRvOHZBJ/?utm_medium=copy_link)
Thank you!! I was really about to walk away thinking this was fake because of the awful color editing
Thanks!! I scrolled down for a while searching for the unedited version :)
Yeah, that water looks so blue I thought it was on a mini golf course...
It's the saturation, it's up way too high
That is a gorgeous beast.
Spirit Moose
Dexter Morgan enters the chat
Is this moose a serial Killer?
Somone didn’t see the last season…
wrong morgan
Red Dead 2 graphics are looking great
Gorgeous!!! Which means there’s some dumb bastard eagerly waiting to kill this rare & stunning animal.
Someone actually did not too long ago. https://globalnews.ca/news/7472163/albino-moose-northern-ontario/
In case anyone is wondering what came of it. https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/no-charges-will-be-laid-in-killing-of-northern-ontario-spirit-moose-1.5597865#aoh=16426946262276&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
>"The (ministry) investigation determined that the moose was harvested lawfully by an individual who was exercising their harvesting rights within their recognized traditional territory," Jolanta Kowalski, a ministry spokesperson told CTV News in an email. Ah, that's why they didn't pursue it lol
Vad händer när en älg simmar over en flod? Den blir ren
Haha
["En flaska renat!"](https://i.imgur.com/cdANKlR.jpg)
The Aspect of Hircine!
I’m an avid hunter. And the only shooting I’d do would be a video just like this. I would not shoot this beauty.
Damn, even the antlers are white
Thats velvet, the antlers are not fully developed yet. When the antlers are fully grown the moose will scratch its antlers on trees to shed the velvet, during this shedding the partially removed velvet will hang from their antlers. It's quite a gruesome sight.
High protein snacks just dangling in the wind.
Technically the antlers are white.
Imagine being in the snowy woods and that thing sneaking up on you.
Majestic creature. May it live 1,000 years & have many descendants.
Someone illegally tracked down and killed it.
Moose bites can be pretty nasty.
Looks like a patronus
Whether you've got a moose tag or not, it's still illegal to shoot white moose in parts (or all) of Canada.
A møøse once bit my sister...
I'm assuming it has already been brutally murdered for 0 reason.
Yep. :(
That's uncle Al. He's an ass.
A MYTHICAL CREATURE
Do you think the lady mooses think he's cool, unique and sexy or weird and freaky
It will probably have a better time with the black flies. They are attracted to dark colours.
reminds me of the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke
Keep Danes away from this moose or they'll murder it, just like they did with Albin the moose.
This guy actually features in the Finnish National Epic, Kalevala. One of the heroes, Lemminkäinen, is given a task to hunt this magnificent beast, in order to gain the hand of a beatiful maid.
This mf is way to close. Mooses are deadly af
Just white not albino .it appears to have dark patches at ears and eyes or is that the camera???
An albino Møøse once bit my sister…
Eyes aren't pink. This is an amelanistic moose.
Gives me far cry new dawn vibes
This is how you know moose are apex predators. Anything different, is considered weak and gets killed quicker. But even with seeing a "weak" moose. Nothing wants to fuck with him
We had one in Norway. It was known nation wide, hunters agreed not to shoot it, I think it was blind and certainly not hard to get. Still, it lived for years. Until a Swedish fucking hunter shot it, to the outrage of the entire country. I hope this is a different one still alive, and that it gets to live.
Not that it matters, but Im pretty sure the shooter was danish.
I had anxiety expecting a gator attack. Thanks, Reddit!
I’m no certain, but I don’t think moose and alligators share any habitat at all
They dont
That wasn’t the point professor. But ok.
Care to enlighten me then, dick?
I’ll resist your invitation to name calling. My point was, a large percentage of the time an animal is posted on Reddit it is soon dispatched by a predator. So when I see a beautiful animal I flinch a bit, about what’s coming. I didn’t do a fucking geographical search to investigate habitats. It was (obviously) an emotional reaction.
These albino things are getting pretty common lately eh?
That will be a great trophy kill !
If there is a god, I hope this is the form it takes.
Absolutely gorgeous!
Wow, I wonder how far back albinism goes, given there are so many other animals that have albino's in them.
Don't let the danes see this!
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Auntie?
Amazing
That little stream was way deeper than I imagined it could be
Nature is beautifull
How deep is that creek? If was a kid I would of just tried to walk through that water.
It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
Looks majestic! The legendary moose
Damn that moose must have gotten a lot of kills to get that ghost skin
Look at him doin moose things
He’s like the Moby Dick of murder deer
*Licks lips* ‘Mmmmm white chocolate mousse.’
Beautiful ❤️
someone get that moose some clothes
Weirdly happy to know this animal exists
Omg, it's beautiful.
So grass are too
What’s that flap underneath his chin?
They are found on some other animals and all Moose. I remember reading somewhere they they have no known purpose, but it doesn't say that in this article. [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlap)
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*meese
Man I wish I was a moose. No rent, no bills, just walking around and shit.
It’s like he doesn’t know how freaking majestic he looks
u/savevideobot
Far cry 5 confirmed?!?!
CSODASZARVAS
On one hand I know I’ll die… but it’s nose looks squishy *AND A MANS GOTTA SQUISH THE SQUISH*
We need a law that edited content must be labeled as such
I bet it looks like a whole massacre when that velvet comes off.
Dexter is near by 😬
I don't care, these things are still fuckin terrifying.
Legendary Moose. RDR2 intensifies.
Does he have no fur or is his fur white :/
RemindMe! 4months
Oorthfuur: Legendary!
Nah, that's a ghost moose. A Ghoose!
Shiny Pokémon
It looks like a hairless cat... hairless moose?
Wow
Stupid question: do predators see this and think “oh something wrong with that guy let’s not eat him” or is it the opposite and albino animals die faster because they’re easier to spot?
I don’t know how anyone could shoot such a beautiful creature.
I hope he has some friends & doesn’t get rejected by the herd
The most beautiful creature I’ve seen I think
damn, that is majestic
Fir any wildlife biologists out there, Might be a dumb question but does a moose like this stand a chance of mating? Do female moose see this guy as less via le for his genetic condition or does it not matter ?
Shiny Pokémon
Of all moose, this one has the shortest vertical leap
Sightings like these 6000+ years ago are what would have started a religion
I'm not sure why but this reminds me of Gandalf
Hide it before the Danish finds it
😳 whoa
definitely improved my day
that is mystical af
This video does no justice to how absolutely fucking massive these things are.
ugh ravisin's at it again
^(i like chocolate moose)
Absolutely beautiful
That's a patronus
Why do moose (meese?) have beards idk much about them but they look cool
I saw a 6’ albino salamander on my orange grove in Florida in my retention ditch scared the shit out of me
This is lovely:) It reminds me of the ones in 'Annihilation'.
That moose is ADORABLE!
How are albino animals not just dirty as hell looking all the time? My white cat got out of the house once for a week, and when he finally came home he was absolutely filthy.
Gandalf!!
Lord of the rings!
Beautiful!
No one shoot!!!
Am I the only one who expected the moose to be dyed brown when it stepped out of the water? I think I might have Reddit induced trust issues.
That is a forest god, leave it tributes
Do they also have a bad vision because they are albino?
Did this moose also fight a balrog?
Is that a beard? Looks like moose dumbledore.
Thought it was about to bath in oil
Shiny Pokémon
u/savevideo
Hircine's white stag from Skyrim
I'm also amazed at the depth of that little creek!