White Cloud (IMAGE)

Texas A&M University

White Cloud

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White Cloud, a female albino bison, lived with the National Buffalo Museum herd in Jamestown, North Dakota, until her death in 2016 at the age of 20. Researchers at Texas A&M University’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences recently the discovered the gene responsible for albinism in bison.

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Photo courtesy of Searle Swedlund and the National Buffalo Museum

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