Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe May 25 (UPI) -- A Newfoundland man captured video of a "once in a lifetime" encounter with a moose that's almost entirely white in coloration. Gerard Gale posted a video to Facebook showing the unusual moose he spotted Monday in Black Duck Siding, near Stephenville. Advertisement The nearly all-white animal is known as a piebald moose. Experts said piebald moose have previously been misidentified as albino. They said albino characteristics, a lack of pigment, are generally not passed down directly to offspring, whereas piebald, which features a pattern of pigmented spots on white hair, feathers, or scales, appears to have a genetic component. "Once in a lifetime for me being 3ft away and almost touching distance at one point," Gale wrote. Read More Pair of orphaned moose calves rescued in Canada Moose mother and calf walk down highway, visit school Moose wanders onto elementary school playground