Nature hides many mysteries that we do not discover and know. Photographer Yves Adams has just surprised many by capturing an extremely rare yellow penguin.
Adams' team had just toured the South Atlantic peninsula in hopes of photographing 1,200 penguins when Adams noticed the distinctive yellow penguins.
Nature and wildlife photographer Yves Adams was also surprised when he first saw a penguin with such distinctive yellow plumage.
I have never seen or heard of such a yellow penguin. On the beach, this bird is very unique because it is unique among more than 120,000 penguins.” - Adams shared with Kennedy News.
The yellow feathers of the penguin are extremely prominent and unique among other penguins in the colony. Let's take a closer look at the beauty of this unique penguin.
The climate and living conditions on remote South Georgia beaches are notoriously harsh.
The scientists explained that the penguin has a different yellow color compared to other birds because it suffers from leukopenia, a syndrome of leukopenia -- a rare mutation in a biochrome gene that causes the animal to lack a pigment factor.
A lack of melanin throughout the body can cause the animal to appear whitish or blotchy. The case of this yellow penguin is thought to be severely lacking in melanin.
In this way, it is difficult for penguins to protect themselves from the sun and keep warm after entering the water.
