{"id":131586,"date":"2025-09-12T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131586\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:02:20","slug":"rare-albino-pudu-deer-spotted-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131586\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare albino pudu deer spotted in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were astonished because it was something so beautiful, we didn&#8217;t think it was an albino pudu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albinism is a condition that leads to little or no production of a pigment called melanin, that can cause the colour of a creature&#8217;s fur to be white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albino animals can have a harder time in the wild, as they often have poor eyesight and their white appearance means they aren&#8217;t able to hide from predators as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But pudu expert Javier Cabello says that, on the Chiloe Island, there aren&#8217;t many animals that seek out the pudu as prey, meaning that albino animals can survive in nature and become adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We were astonished because it was something so beautiful, we didn&#8217;t think it was an albino pudu.&#8221; Albinism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-131586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}