A rare yellow turtle that looks like melted cheese in a cheeseburger has been spotted in a lake not far from a village in West Bengal, India.
According to media, this is a rare albino turtle that has no pigment and therefore resembles cheese. In addition to having a rare disorder, the turtle also belongs to a rare species.
Her photo was posted on Twitter by Sneha Dharwadka, who offered two explanations for albinism.
“It could be that it was due to a genetic mutation or a congenital disorder caused by the absence of the pigment tyrosinase,” he explained.
In late July, a farmer from eastern India found a rare yellow turtle that experts attribute to albinism.
Basudev Mahapatra spotted the turtle while working in a field in the village of Sudjanpur in Balasore district and decided to take it, forester Susanta Nanda told CNN on Tuesday.
Mahapatra found the turtle on Sunday and handed it over to foresters, who called in experts.
Siddhartha Pati, executive director of the Biodiversity Conservation Association, told CNN it was the first time he had seen this type of turtle.
The turtle, believed to be an adult, aged between a year and a half and two, has been released into the wild in Balasore, Pati added.