Rare albino animals

Scientists working off Russia's far eastern coast have captured footage of what they believe to be the first ever adult, all-white orca whale sighted in the wild. According to Reuters, scientists and students from the Far East Russia Orca Project spotted the whale twice off the coast of the Bering Island in Aug. 2010. Scientist hope to confirm soon whether the orca, nicknamed "Iceberg," is an albino.

According to U.S. National Library of Medicine, Albinism (from Latin albus, "white") is a congenital disorder in which pigment in the hair is partially or completely absence due to a lack of an enzyme found in melanin. Here are some other animals that have this unique and rare trait.

In this 2003 file photo, two baby albino bengal tigers are seen.

An albino wallaby, named "Pino," looks out from his mother's pouch at "Le Cornelle" zoo park in Valbrembo near Bergamo.

In this 1993 file photo, an albino tiger cub is seen with her mother and siblings.

This photo taken on October 15, 2009 shows an albino kangaroo from a wildlife park in Australia.

This file photo dated 14 September 2003 shows 40-year-old Copito de Nieve (Snowflake), the only albino gorilla in the Barcelona zoo, Spain.

In this 1998 file photo, an albino baby koala is seen clinging to its mother at the San Diego Zoo.

This photo taken on March 25, 2010 shows a wild albino donkey on the island of Asinara, Italy.

An albino hedgehog sits on a palm of in a Zoo keeper in the Dendrary Botanical Garden in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on September 5, 2001.

A white peacock opens its feathers in a cage in the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on June 9, 2011. The peacock is the national bird of India and the white peacock is often mistaken for an albino, but it is in fact a recessive mutation.

A rare albino Vervet monkey in Livingstone, Zambia forages with a normal vervet monkey.

In this 2007 file photo, an albino red-necked wallaby with her baby is seen.

This photo taken on July 25, 2010 shows a rare albino fishing cat, who experts believe could be the last of its kind in South Asia, kept in the private collection of Bangladeshi wildlife conservationist Sitesh Ranjon Deb at his house in Sreemangol.

A rare albino buffalo grazes in Hellsgate national park in Naivasha after it was discovered by wardens.

A white albino buffalo grazes in a pasture September 30, 2010 at the National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown North Dakota

In this 2007 file photo, a one-month-old albino common barking deer romps near an older albino male deer.

In this 2002 file photo, an albino black vulture is seen.

An albino porcupine eats a corn cob in its enclosure at the Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden in Ahmedabad on December 4, 2009.

Karl Ferdinand Trunk performs with albino boars during the 33rd International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo on January 15, 2009 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

This photo taken on October 20, 2008 shows an albino tiger.

In this 2004 file photo, an albino northern freetail micro bat is seen.

In this 2001 file photo, an albino alligator is seen.

In this file photo, an albino laboratory rat is seen competing in the tight rope event at the 2005 "Xtreme Rat Challenge" event held at the Nebraska Wesleyan University.

In this 2007 photo, an albino mountain goat is seen.