• Question: why do albino animals have red or pink eyes

    Asked by animals to Anil, Blanka, Cees, Emma, Mike on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Emma Trantham

      Emma Trantham answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Albino animals have no pigments (colourings) in their irises (that bit in your eye that looks brown/grey/green/blue). (They also don’t have any pigments in their skin). Because their iris isn’t coloured you can see straight through them to the blood vessels at the back of the eye which makes them look red.

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