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    Default Are albinos ACTUALLY albinos?

    I know with a lot of other types of animals (crocs, tigers, lions, ect) that white there are albinos, they aren't actually albino, they're just white. Are frogs and toads generally the same? I just thought about it because I noticed that with a lot of "albino" types that their eyes are still the same color or some other feature is the same color as others within the species. I also know that an albino specimen is identified by its eyes. I know there are exceptions to every rule, but are all the "albino" species like that?

    P.S. This all just facinates me because I have a pigment dissorder so some of my skin has no coloration whatso ever.
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    Default Re: Are albinos ACTUALLY albinos?

    Albinism is the lack of dark pigments. That means that the animal takes on the color of the skin itself, which in frogs is generally pinkish in larger frogs, or transparent in smaller ones. The other pigments remain. The eyes lack dark pigmentation too, so they look pink/red. That's how you tell.
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    Default Re: Are albinos ACTUALLY albinos?

    Mkay, I suppose it makes sense that frogs wouldn't generally breed white anyway. I couldn't visualize a frog needing to be white to blend into it's enviroment because it lives in a snowwy tundra or something. Snow frogs would be pretty cool though.
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