This isn't a polar bear — it's an incredibly rare white grizzly bear

A Canadian family spotted an “exceedingly rare” white grizzly bear while walking in a national park.On April 29, the Rimrock Resort Hotel in Banff shared a video that Cara Clarkson.the hotel’s director of operations, and her husband Tyler had taken while strolling in Banff National Park.The parents, along with their two sons, 3-year-old Beau and 6-month-old Jak.had noticed two grizzly bears searching for food along the Trans-Canada highway just three days earlier.One of the bears had typical brown fur while the other’s fur was all white.“We were like, ‘Holy smokes.

That is [a] full-on white grizzly bear,'” Cara told St.

Albert Today.“We knew we were so lucky because white grizzly bears are unheard of”.Grizzly bear expert Mike Gibeau tells St.

Albert Today that the presence of a white grizzly bear is “exceedingly rare”.Gibeau, who saw the family’s footage, also noted that the white grizzly bear in question was not albino.While albino bears do not have any pigments in their skin and hair and often have pink eyes.this particular bear had a white fur as a result of a recessive gene, he said