Extremely Rare White Cougar Highlights A Quirk Of The Species

Recently, four camera trap pictures from the year 2013 have resurfaced on the interwebs, and turns out, these photos capture the first-ever confirmed case of a wild cougar with leucism. These 4 photos were captured in Brazil back in 2013 using a trap camera. These pictures were taken in Serra dos Órgãos National Park located in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest 7 years ago using a trap camera. Then, a few years later, an article published in the Cat News journal confirmed that these pictures, in fact, captured the first-ever confirmed case of a wild cougar with leucism. In 2018, a study confirmed that these pictures capture the first-ever seen case of a leucistic puma.