Rare White Buffalo

by Janette Boyd

Title

Rare White Buffalo

Artist

Janette Boyd

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Photograph - Photo/texture/digital

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Photo of rare white buffalo was taken at Wild Wilderness Drive Through Safari in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where there is a herd of "white" buffalo. Additional texture by FAA Artist, Jai Johnson, called, DT-Illumination (10) was added, using Corel Paint techniques of brushes and blending.

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A white buffalo or white bison is an American bison possessing white fur, and is considered sacred or spiritually significant in several Native American religions; therefore, such buffalo are often visited for prayer and other religious rituals. The coats of buffalo are almost always brown and their skin a dark brown or black; however, white buffalo can result from one of several physical conditions:

* They may be albinos, in which case they will remain unpigmented throughout their lives, and may also have hearing and vision problems.
* They may be leucistic, with white fur but blue eyes, instead of the pink seen in albinos.
* They may have a rare genetic condition which causes a buffalo to be born white, but to become brown within a year or two as it matures.
* They may be beefalo, a bison-cattle crossbreed, and thus have inherited the white coloration from their cattle ancestry. White buffalo are extremely rare; the National Bison Association has estimated that they only occur in approximately one out of every 10 million births.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_buffalo

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August 3rd, 2016

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