Have you ever seen a white moose? Two were seen in Ontario late last month! There are very rare, and are sometimes called spirit moose. The white moose in the video are not albino, they are actually white from a recessive gene. That means that two brown moose can produce a white offspring, but only if they both carry the gene. Cottage Life said, "Ontario’s hunting laws protect them from being killed. Specifically, Ontario’s 2016 moose hunting regulations prohibit hunters from killing any moose that is more than 50 per cent white." Amazing!
Crichton explains how it takes two moose with the same gene to find each other and produce a potentially white calf.If a white moose mated with a brown moose, that gene could still be in the calf but will express itself only when an adult moose with the gene mates with another moose possessing the same gene.
Have you ever seen a white moose? Two were seen in Ontario late last month! There are very rare, and are sometimes called spirit moose. The white moose in the video are not albino, they are actually white from a recessive gene. That means that two brown moose can produce a white offspring, but only if they both carry the gene. Cottage Life said, "Ontario’s hunting laws protect them from being killed. Specifically, Ontario’s 2016 moose hunting regulations prohibit hunters from killing any moose that is more than 50 per cent white." Amazing!