Extremely Rare White Cougar Highlights A Quirk Of The Species

As you’ve probably already noticed, we like to write articles about cats. And as we’ve already noticed, you like to read these articles just as much as we like to create them. But today, let’s mix things up a bit by putting a twist on this whole cat thing. Today, let’s talk about a wild cat that also happens to be an extremely rare one.

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.