{"id":551611,"date":"2026-01-29T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/551611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:08:11","slug":"trail-cam-captures-rare-white-elk-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/551611\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Cam Captures Rare, White Elk in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/montanafwp\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks<\/a> (FWP) shared trail-cam photos of a white elk, noting that the genetic condition that causes this pale coloration (leucism) is \u201cnot common at all.\u201d Unlike albinism, leucism affects an animal\u2019s hair\/fur but not the color of its eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/caught-on-trail-cam-ghost-deer-in-texas-nature-preserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Caught on Trail Cam: \u2018Ghost\u2019 Deer in Texas Nature Preserve<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty cool capture from a game cam,\u201d wrote Montana FWP in its Instagram post sharing the images. \u201cThese photos show a white elk, and to clarify, this is a leucistic elk. Leucism is a genetic condition that causes a partial loss of pigmentation. [. . . ] Leucism isn\u2019t common at all . . . Nature never runs out of surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the white elk caught on a Montana trail cam:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Header stock image by Dariusz Banaszuk\/Getty Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best Trail Cameras to Watch Wildlife<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/best-trail-cameras-to-watch-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">best trail cams here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Outdoors.com<\/a>\u00a0may earn a commission when you make a purchase through affiliate links. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks (FWP) shared trail-cam photos of a white elk, noting that the genetic condition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":551612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[91444,221388,159,4365,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-551611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-elk","tag-rare-animal","tag-science","tag-trail-camera","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115978548199651475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}