![]() The Point Reyes National Seashore featured the unusual creature this week on its Facebook page, where it drew comments like “How exotic and dreamlike!” and “Filing this under ‘Things I have an urge to snuggle, which would be a terrible idea to snuggle.’” Wrote another person: “He looks like such a happy, cuddly chap skipping down the trail there.” (Look closely and you’ll see its eyes are black-brown and its nose has some pigment.) A normal-colored American badger as photographed by Carlos Porrata, a former ranger with the Tomales Bay State Park in Marin County. It probably is leucistic, a condition caused by a genetic mutation that results in partial loss of coloring. Is this the Moby Dick of the badger world in Marin County? Well, it turns out the animal is not full albino. “It came padding towards me at a good clip, and when it turned around, it kept going at the same speed until it got off into the bushes.” “It seemed like it was just traveling,” he says. (Although badgers naturally seem to have resting-cranky faces.) ![]() Kramer just had time enough to whip out his phone and capture the above image of the white badger, which in his shot looks a little cranky. It was coming towards me on the trail and didn’t notice me at first, as I had stopped moving.” “Once it came into full view, I realized what I was seeing. “I was on a 5-mile out-and-back (in Olema Valley) and just after I turned around at my halfway point, I noticed something on the trail ahead,” says Kramer, a nature photographer who lives in West Marin. ![]() 26 in the Point Reyes National Seashore when he came across a startling sight: an American badger as pale as a bar of soap.
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