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English: White peacocks, Pavo (peafowl) are often called albino, but albinism is a specific condition that causes red eyes and extremely pale skin. Albinism in peafowl is incredibly rare and largely unstudied. Most white peafowl have normal-colored eyes and pigmented skin. Their feathers are white due to a genetic mutation known as leucism, which inhibits melanin from being deposited in their feathers.Leucism is a recessive condition, which means it can be carried but hidden beneath the dominant gene that results in pigmentation and patterning. For a white peafowl to occur, it must receive the recessive gene from each parent. If the parents both display traditional coloration, the odds of their offspring being leucistic are one in four. If both display leucistic coloration, it's certain that the condition would be passed down, the specimen was photographed in the courtyard of the Saint Naum Monastery in Ohrid. The Albino Peacock opened its extravagant tail as part of courtship, but also as a defense against a stranger such as myself.