Overview
- Project Lince identified the animal as a wild female named Satureja, born in 2021 and already under routine monitoring.
- Photographer Ángel Hidalgo captured photos and video after months of tracking and camera-trap work in the Jaén mountains.
- Technicians report that dark eumelanin markings persist while orange‑yellow pigments appear suppressed, pointing to pheomelanin disruption.
- Satureja shows normal behavior and no health risk, and officials have kept the exact location confidential for her protection.
- A prior Andalusian female exhibited the same whitening and later regained normal coloration as investigators now probe environmental agents or individual hypersensitivity within that population.