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Some new video has been posted online of Whistler’s rare and adorable white bear cub.
The video shows the cub playfully wrestling with its mother – a black bear that is well-known in the area.
Whistler tour guide Kathy Jenkins captured this video of the two playing last week.
Longtime bear researcher Michael Allen, who operates bear viewing tours and writes a bear blog for the Whistler Blackcomb resort, doesn’t believe the cub is a Kermode bear or an albino.
“The fact that it does not have a black nose or pigmentation suggests that it is likely the result of a double recessive mutation,” Allen wrote.
“After 23 years of research, I have seen cubs ranging black, reddish brown, chocolate brown to blonde (after summer bleaching of coat) but, never have seen in this population, a cub with pelage this light to almost white. This is not an albino but rather, the cub is possibly a result of both parents having a recessive gene.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
