Meet the albino tanuki, the ghost of Japan’s forests 🦊✨With its snow-white fur and piercing blue eyes, this rare variation of the raccoon dog looks like it stepped straight out of folklore. In Japanese mythology, tanuki are mischievous shapeshifters, said to play tricks on humans with their illusions. But spotting a real albino tanuki is no trick at all. It is one of the rarest wildlife encounters in the world. Mysterious, mythical, and mesmerizing, the albino tanuki is living proof that legend

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