A photograph of historical significance and just an outlandish curiosity – photographer Eve Adams managed to capture an impossible creature!
Biologically speaking, it’s a penguin, but where have you seen penguins have a bright yellow color, like parrots? Unique, to be sure!
Science says this condition is called leucism. Similar to albinism, but different and much rarer.
They began to study it in penguins at the beginning of the century, but the trouble is that scientists have not yet made a single normal, decent photograph. So this is the first shot of Adams in history that is so colorful and detailed.
Everything is black and white, and he is yellow!
According to statistics, such an individual can appear with a probability of 1 in 150,000. On the island where the yellow penguin was found, Adams’s group counted approximately 120,000 birds, and among them, he was the only one!
The photographer himself believes that he is incredibly lucky – and just to meet such a copy, and get close enough for a good shot.
Alas, if users of social networks are delighted with such photos, scientists are skeptical about the prospects of the penguin.
It is not in vain that nature endowed birds with camouflage color and such an eye-catching one attracts a lot of attention, including predators. But there is no question of catching and moving the unique creature to the zoo either.
