Spanish animal conservationists have worked hard to prevent the extinction of the Iberian lynx, and that hard work has paid off. According to the BBC, the population once dropped as low as 100, but there are now over 2,000 living in Spain and Portugal.

Now, according to News 18, a Spanish photographer has taken the first-ever picture of a white Iberian lynx. The only problem is that it kind of looks like a guy in a fursuit or possibly a Pokémon.

I’m not saying it is a person in a cat suit, just that it looks like one.

Those eyes look too human. 

A photographer in southern Spain captured what is believed to be the first-ever white Iberian lynx, a leucistic big cat so rare it seems almost mythical. Already one of the world’s rarest cats, the Iberian lynx was pulled back from the brink of extinction after its population… pic.twitter.com/rLQrMfbCNq

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