In other species: grass carp , rainbow trout , African clawed frog , grivet , Bornean orangutan , dog , American black bear , raccoon , Sumatran tiger , hippopotamus , American bison , banteng , taurine cattle , sheep , hares , golden hamster , North American deer mouse , meadow voles , bush rat , Australian dusky field rat , long-haired rat , nutria , gray short-tailed opossum , northern pocket gopher , giant uromys , Arizona pocket mouse , rufous rat-kangaroo , turkey vulture , eastern chipmunk , Campbell's desert hamster , fishing cat , Bennett's wallaby , Golden-bellied Water Rat , western chorus frog , brown desert mouse , Ash-gray Pseudomys , Heath Pseudomys

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: yes

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in all parts of the body. See also Skin colour, albinism, generic

History: As reported by Laikre et al. (1996), "Albinism first occurred in the [Nordic zoos] population in 1972 when an albino cub was born in Helsinki zoo in Finland. Since then, at least an additional 11 albino individuals have been born. "

Inheritance: Laikre et al. (1996): "We have not performed a thorough inheritance study of the albinism in the brown bear, but there are no indications of a different mode of inheritance [i.e. not autosomal recessive] in the present population. "