Behold, the world’s first known “strawberry” leopard
You ’re looking at the only get it on deterrent example of what conservationists are calling a hemangioma simplex discolor African leopard . The big , pink - hued hombre — which makes its home at South Africa ’s Madikwe Game Reserve — is affected by erythrism , a ill understood transmitted condition that causes him to either overproduce red pigments or underproduce gloomy pigments in his coat . “ It ’s really rare , ” explained Luke Hunter , chairperson of the waste cat - conservation group Panthera , whom Madikwe official consult with about the khat ’s strange coloration ....