A Very Rare White Bear Caught On Camera By Natural Resources Center Professor

Ilpo Kojola, a research professor at the Natural Resources Center, confirms to Ilta-Sanomat that a bear sighting in Toivoniemi is very rare even at the international level. The bear is not albino, but very intensely pale. I don't remember seeing one blond bear anywhere. Maybe there are some of these in the world. However, it is a very exceptionally colored individual. A research professor at the Natural Resources Center believes that light fur can be explained by genetic factors. Photo: Veijo Toivoniemi. Kojola also believes that the pigment of the bear has been affected by genetic factors. For example, in birds that eat a lot of junk food, color changes, such as white feathers, have been observed, but bears do not have a lot of junk food there. Kojola thinks that the bear belongs to a litter that went public in Kuhmo in 2018, and that Iltalehti, among others, reported on the light fur of two puppies.