{"id":436990,"date":"2026-01-29T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:24:08","slug":"trail-cam-captures-rare-white-elk-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436990\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Cam Captures Rare, White Elk in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/montanafwp\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks<\/a> (FWP) shared trail-cam photos of a white elk, noting that the genetic condition that causes this pale coloration (leucism) is \u201cnot common at all.\u201d Unlike albinism, leucism affects an animal\u2019s hair\/fur but not the color of its eyes.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/caught-on-trail-cam-ghost-deer-in-texas-nature-preserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Caught on Trail Cam: \u2018Ghost\u2019 Deer in Texas Nature Preserve<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty cool capture from a game cam,\u201d wrote Montana FWP in its Instagram post sharing the images. \u201cThese photos show a white elk, and to clarify, this is a leucistic elk. Leucism is a genetic condition that causes a partial loss of pigmentation. [. . . ] Leucism isn\u2019t common at all . . . Nature never runs out of surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the white elk caught on a Montana trail cam:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Dariusz Banaszuk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Best Trail Cameras to Watch Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/best-trail-cameras-to-watch-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">best trail cams here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Outdoors.com<\/a>\u00a0may earn a commission when you make a purchase through affiliate links. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks (FWP) shared trail-cam photos of a white elk, noting that the genetic condition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[13169,188148,79,47968,201],"class_list":["post-436990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-elk","tag-rare-animal","tag-science","tag-trail-camera","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}