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This handout picture released by Hugo Barros shows a white gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) specimen, affected by leucism, is seen at Chile's Gabriel Gonzalez Videla base in Antarctica on January 2024. As white as snow. This is the rare gentoo penguin specimen with leucism that surprised the Chilean Navy team at the Gabriel Gonzalez Videla Antarctic base in early January. “Last Thursday, January 4, we had the arrival of a very particular penguin, completely white”, Hugo Harros, cook at the scientific station located in the Bahia Paraiso Harbor Master's Office, in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula, told AFP. (Photo by Hugo Harros/Hugo Barros/AFP Photo)
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