Let& #39;s talk about snakes and the difference between albino and leucistic.

Albino snakes are usually white and yellow (or orange sometimes) with red eyes. Here you can see an albino milk snake and an albino ball python.

Albinism is a natural mutation of the genes that can occur in the wild. Is not something "created" by humans by actively breeding certain traits. That& #39;s what leucistic is however. These two are Burmese pythons, one leucistic and one albino.

The leucistic gene, as I said before, is not something found in the wild but genetically modified by humans through breeding to get completely white snakes. There are three main leucistic lines: Blue eyed, black eyed and red eyed leucistics.

Thanks to that gene we have the amazing and kind of stupid looking danger noodles that are leucistic rat snakes. They& #39;re made for memes and the internet and they are also probably my favourite leucistic snake.

Yes, I created this thread only to end up talking about leucistic rat snakes because I love them, okay? Can you all blame me? Who can resist this big goofy eyes and that stupid "I know nothing" face? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes">