In Pictures: Whiter shade of pale - from giraffes to peacocks

Photos of a rare white giraffe and its pale offspring - spotted recently in Kenya - have been taking the Internet by storm, notching up about a million views so far. This lack of pigmentation, while rare, occurs across the animal kingdom, in the furred, feathered and scaled, from the tiny mouse to the majestic humpback whale.

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