18 Animals That Lost and Won the Genetic Lottery at the Same Time

White turtles, black zebras, golden tigers, pink katydids — they often don’t survive for long in the wild without the benefits of their natural coloring. However, such animals never fail to capture people's hearts.

Silver fox: A melanistic form of a red fox is a silver fox. When the red fox was domesticated, a new breed – the silver fox – appeared. Historically, it was very noble to wear clothes embroidered with its fur, especially in Russia, China, and Western Europe. The coloring may differ from silver-gray to dark black. Are silver foxes rare? Silver foxes are incredibly rare in the wild, and are the same species as the red fox but just have a different coloured coat. It is believed the animal could be one of a pair of silver foxes kept as pets by someone who lives nearby, with reports of the foxes having escaped in January this year, as well as in 2018.