White Animals

While naturally white animals are rare, several species have white fur, plumage, or skin. Most of these animals live in cold, snowy areas, where white coloration acts as effective camouflage. Some animals, like the Arctic hare and the Arctic fox, use their white fur to hide from predators. Others, like the polar bear, deceive potential prey by camouflaging themselves in the surrounding ice.

List of Animals that are White

Mammals

Arctic Fox
Arctic Hare
Arctic Wolf
Beluga Whale
Dall Sheep
Harp Seal
Honduran White Bat
Kermode Bear
Mountain Goat
Polar Bear
Taiwanese Humpback Dolphin
Winter White Dwarf Hampster

Birds

Mute Swan
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Ptarmigan
Snowy Egret
Snowy Owl
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Whooper Swan
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Willow Ptarmigan

Amphibians

Axolotl

Insects

Box Tree Moth
Cabbage White Butterfly
Citrus Flatid Planthopper
Citrus Leafminer
Citrus Mealybug
Common Clothes Moth
Common Whitetail
Cottony Cushion Scale
Falcate Orangetip Butterfly
Fall Webworm Moth
Greenhouse Whitefly
Jasmine Moth
Silverleaf Whitefly
White Satin Moth
Yellow Wooly Bear

This list only covers animals with white pigmentation, not leucism or albinism. Those animals are a rare genetic offshoot, not individual species.

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