The great White Lion
I’m a huge animal lover. I really am! When I was 10 I used to watch Animal Planet with my dad and whenever I saw a lion cub, a cheetah cub or a leopard I used to always bug my dad to buy me one. Well I didn’t get my favorite pet (my dad always used to say “An animal belongs in the woods or the jungle. If you take him out of there you’re only going to ruin its life“) but I meet people that are animal lovers as well and I got to work with lions, cheetahs, monkeys, wolves, cats, dogs, you name it! So here is a photo collection of the great White Lion, or the Candy Lion as I like to call it. I hope you’ll enjoy it too!
LoL!
February 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
They’re beautiful!!
February 9th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Faked… that’s photoshopped.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Maybe the first picture is photoshoped but the white lion is very real. Check it out …
Thank you all for your visit!
February 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Very pretty.You should post pictures of deformed ones too (if you can find any they seem to bee hard to find), since (although beautiful) white lions and tigers are caused by a recessive gene in which you need two of for it to be visible and normally this entitles inbreeding(causes deformities and health problems) which zoo’s tend to do to get that double recessive gene to show.
February 12th, 2008 at 6:43 am
hey, those pictures are beautiful. My dream is to work with big cats. How did you get to work with so many animals? I’m 18 and I’m not quite sure where to start. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:02 am
why does everyone say that everything is photoshopped?
its so lame, just because you haven’t seen it with your own eyes doesn’t mean its not true,
any animal can be white, its called albino
i have been fortunate enough to see a white lion (it was albino) and know that they are very real
February 12th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Jessie : when I was very young I used to go to the circus and every time I went there I used to talked to those people about the animals they were taming. And a couple of years later I started to help the local Zoo where they brought animals from around the world. Try your local Zoo, it’s a start.
Zeebee: as I said, the white lion is a beauty and I love those big cats. Maybe some people are just mean and they tend to say everything is fake. I really don’t know!
Anyway, thank you all for your time here. Hope you’ll visit us again any time soon!
February 13th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
When global warming comes and glaciers sweep the plains of Africa, those guys might have the edge hunting…
February 14th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Thank you, Sue, for bringing that up. That’s the very reason I don’t go to zoos or parks that have white lions or tigers. People just eat it up though, and that’s why it will continue.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Zeebee: they’re not albino. Albinoism is totally different from just being white…white fur is just a genetic deviation in colour [like how panthers are just black leopards]. Albinism is when there is a total lack of pigment, basically making their skin/fur/etc see-through, and the thickness of skin layers make them appear white (like if you stack many transparent sheets on top of each other, it appears white). You can tell if it’s albino or not by looking at their eyes. Generally albinos have red or pink eyes, and white animals will have normal eyes. [Not true in all animals though - rats for instance can be white and have red eyes, or brown with red eyes, etc...]
Think about it. Not all dogs/cats that are white are albino. Why would wild animals be any different?
February 14th, 2008 at 4:37 am
this is so not fake!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Sue: unfortunately I couldn’t find too many pictures of deformed white lions, but as soon as possible I’ll post some of the photos I’ve found surfing the internet.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:22 am
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February 14th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I love your photos
February 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
All white lions/tigers are cross eyed
They are bred for the recessive gene. This is horrid.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I agree. It’s not an albino just because it’s white. If it had pink eyes then that would be a different story. This is one beautiful creature. There better off in Zoo’s. otherwize it would be on some assholes wall.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Sadly, the fact that white lions are so popular is a bad thing. Lion lions are a genetic mutation – a bad one – and takes quite a bit to get. They don’t tend to live as long and they arent as healthy. But because people want them so much people try to breed them for zoos, this means that many animals are destroyed or mistreated to get one that is fit and healthy – though never THAT healthy in the end.
With so many white lions the mutation becomes more and more common, causing wide-spread genetic problems throughout the lion species. They are pretty and its a shame they are.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Jesse, by all means look into your local zoo.
But like all good animal caretakers, you need to pay your dues.
That means serious schooling, volunteering, whatever it takes.
Domestic cats are really not very different than big cats in many ways-
go to work for your local shelter and start learning !
February 19th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Albino for humans is not the same as other animals. As with humans it is very possible to have gray eyes and be albino. I have a 26 year old friend who is albino and if you didn’t know any better you’d think he simply had gone white at a very early age. This isn’t true, however, because he was born with white hair, pink skin, and gray eyes.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I love how there is always one person who claims that the pictures are photoshopped no matter what they are. Nice pictures though.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
I think this is really cool ive never seen an albino lion before it’s awesome! I also grew up loving animals and still do
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
Photoshopped or not…I’m in love!
Just gorgeous
February 28th, 2008 at 4:50 am
I agree with the comment about them being just white and not albino.If they were albino their snouts(nose ) would be pink or fleshy looking, not black.The animals here are a beautiful freak show muniplulated by man for our sick enjoyment.
I eat white tiger cubs for breakfast.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
WOW Just beautiful
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The White lion actually is not albino.
The white lion posesses a resesive gene known as the chinchilla gene. WHite lions have the Leucistic trait which is due to the chinchilla mutation that inhibits the deposition of pigment alond the hair shaft restricting it to the tips. And also they are not photo shopped pictures. these are real lions they are very rarely found in the wild and for a long time were believed to be only a myth.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
my fav animal if white lions i love dem for lyf
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The lion at the top really looks like a king! I love how he’s sticking out his tounge!
March 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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April 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
thoes are very beautiful cats i have seen them my self and i know they are real and for thoes people who dont think they are real u need to get out more insted of laying around and being lazy all the time and calling people liers and i know they are real because i went to the zoo and i got to see a white tiger so they are real
April 19th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
lol they are like so totally cute
June 16th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Steve….Have you never, ever (is it possible?) heard of albinism? Sigfried and Roy? Kimba the White Lion? Dumbass.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:14 am
There’s a pride of white lions at West Midlands Safari Park in England. They’re even more beautiful when seen in real life.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:11 am
WOW…I’ve never heard of WHITE lions. Wonderful!
October 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Well, they do look good, likewise to white tigers, white peacocks etc etc. However, that will not help them survive in the wild, as the expression of this ‘white’ gene is not evolutionary beneficial to them. Think about it – inbreeding these animals only help zoos to earn money, while these animals might not want it that way at all.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:23 am
Cool gr8 pics
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I would just like to point out that not all zoos in-breed to keep producing the white gene… There is a man in NZ who runs a lion park and he specializes in white lions and tigers. He DOES NOT in-breed his creatures, he travels around the world looking for unrelated white genes. He is doing this to save them from extinction because the last wild white lion was killed not that long ago by a damn trophy hunter. White lions and tigers only get deformed and health problems if they are in-bred. So please, don’t judge all zoos as the same because there are ones out there who genuinely want to help these majestic creatures.
Oh and in case you haven’t realised i LOVE these pictures!! Big cats are some of my favourite animals and I have a soft spot for animals with the white gene or ones that are albino. Hope to see more
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:56 am
Aren’t people amazing? The negativity never ends does it….
November 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
But how these things are related together?
November 19th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Anybody can give the link for the second (white lions family) picture in high resolution for my desktop?
December 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
White lions are no where near as inbred as white tigers are. I’ve done research presentations on both, and never have I come across any reputable data on the inbreeding of white lions. There are fewer than 300 in the world at last count, and they were extinct in the wild for 13 years before being reintroduced by the White Lion Trust (whitelions.org). The ones they have introduced into the wild have had their first white litter this year. Based on oral tradition among native Africans, the white lions existed in the wild for centuries, so they clearly were meant to survive in the wild.
The color is not albino, but a double-recessive chinchilla gene, though the specific marker is yet to be found.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
beautiful is not enough 2 describe this…!
January 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
these pictures are absolotly beutiful i’m also a huge animal lover and wants a lion for a pet
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April 2nd, 2009 at 2:58 am
I have’nt seen any white lions but this one looks real to me. Beautiful pictures.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Its just like the white Ape or Gorilla, they usually get killed cause they will only live for 5-8 years
June 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
All white tigers in captivity are descended from a single white cub in 1958 called Mohan. He was bred with his orange daughter to produce white cubs which were bought by zoos for 60k each.
All current white tigers come from this single white cub and single white bloodline.
It is not possible to have a separate bloodline as only the one was captured and breed.
Visit http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm for more information, don’t let pride get in the way of knowledge.
Albinos animals have a red eye hue by the way
August 20th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I’m impressed. Pics are awesome.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hey ! Thanks for sharing this. its amazing i love these big CATS first one is Awesome. i love work with wild life members and try to save these Big cats under Project Tiger.
Thanks
August 21st, 2009 at 7:03 am
xcooool
September 6th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
baby tigers are sooooooo cute!!!!!!!!i want pictures of them so bad.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
baby lions are sooooooo cute!!!!!!!!i want pictures of them so bad.im a baby lion lover!
September 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
baby lions are sooooo cute!!!!!!i want pictures of them so bad.im a baby lion lover!
September 15th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
THESE ARE SUCH WONDERFUL PICTURES!YOU KNOW JESUS IS CONSIDERED THE “WHITE” LION OF JUDAH.TOP OF THE LINE!tHANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR PICS!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
hey i love animals soooooooo much it is so sad to see the poor animals dying because of cruel humans who do not want to take care of the enviroment, i think white lions are so pretty its a pity they cant survive in the wild because of there colour!!!!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
this is allsome i love white animals lol
December 21st, 2009 at 6:49 am
this is allsome i love white animals lol (*)
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December 21st, 2009 at 6:50 am
this is allsome i love white animals lol @};-
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:55 am
They are not albino,they have a recessive gene that will only produce when two normal lion’s who both have the gene mate. Three white cub’s were found in 1970. There are an estimated 300 white lion’s surviving today & new cubs were recently born in the wild. Thankyou for the wonderful picture’s. Lion’s are my favourite animal. I just watched a documentry on white lion’s and i think they are beautiful!!
January 10th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
While the white lion is, sadly, inbred in captivity, the gene did first occur in the WILD. There was even a documentary on a successful white lion male who was able to win a pride.
January 26th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
THis is sooooooooo cute, they are not photoshoped, they are real and you better beleave it Asshole
February 12th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
im doing a reasearch on white lions they are so adorable i :love white lions 2
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
My class and I are doing reports on endangered species and when my bff showed me pictures of the White Lion, I fell in love! How can i help save them from extinction? These animals are BEAUTIFUL!!!!
February 27th, 2010 at 11:14 am
They are adorable… and heyy if you think they are photoshopped, then you are stupid enough to get caught by an alien{as i guess you dont believe in them too} and taken by them to their home planet for dinner… or tasty enough to get bited by a vampire… So pls if you dont want any of these to happen to you then keep your stupid, abhorrent, abnormal and disgusted thoughts to your dusted mind and keep your butt out of this site… ohhh they are heartbreaking…
February 28th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I am in love with wild cats mostly Lions and by the way did you take the pictures your self not that their bad it’s just that their beautiful and adorable
March 8th, 2010 at 7:29 am
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April 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 am
i thought they were so cute
April 7th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
White lions are the prettiest lions to me in the whole wide world and they look gorgest in the snow. But i can tell you that thier bites hurt alot and you do not want to get bite by a white lion really any type of lion to tell you the truth.
May 5th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
hey the first picture is so cute with his tongue showing:)
June 6th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
it’s an old meme to say it’s shopped. Ignore it. they’re jsut fucking stupid trolls
June 28th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Los leones blancos son geniales, hermosos y lindos.
¡Paz a todo el mundo!
June 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
LOS ANIMALES SON GENIALES Y FANTASTICOS ADIOS. AMOR
July 4th, 2010 at 11:14 am
these are realy very beautiful and sweet these are like
angles.
August 12th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
They really are pretty but it’s a shame that they are white since they can’t camoflauge in the wild and cannot hunt properly. White really does stand out.
August 17th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Beautiful animals! It’s too bad they are so rare, but they are awesome. Lion King is one of my favorite Disney movies.
August 17th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
OMJ! U can’t photoshop something like this, this is God’s work. Not albino, but they are recessive, I just saw them on the Early show that’s what made me google them, and I saved all these pics. Hey, whoever wanted the desktop, can u resize it bigger in paint and then make it into a desktop? I did that once or twice. These guys remind me of Simba. Wow. I love Simba, bc he talks and sings but I would love to hug one of them, if they liked ppl! Beautiful pics, I will share them w/ all my friends.
September 25th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
no,there is albino lions,they look so beacuse of the mutation in their genes,it’s not photoshopped,its real,there are lots of animals,called albino,which means white in colour,due to mutation.
October 30th, 2010 at 6:43 am
Actually the first pic is photo shopped you can tell to look at it there is a refection in the glass behind the lion, its a diffrent clour! i hate it when people do that, the rest are real tho, i do pic editing as a hobby and i’m pretty good at telling which one are edited and which ones arn’t i’m getting pretty good at air brushing as well now.
October 30th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
demasiado buenos, son increibles se ven mejor en blanco que en amarillos
October 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
demasiado buenos se ven mejor en blanco que en amarillos son increibles mi animal favorito
November 10th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Hello,white lions are very rare too people.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:55 pm
i like turtles.
December 5th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I think they are cool
December 11th, 2010 at 7:53 am
oh my god very very beautiful!!
December 19th, 2010 at 11:20 am
watch the movie : white lion
Home is a journey.
Beautiful movie about a white lion.
December 20th, 2010 at 12:00 am
THEY ARE THE CUTEST LIONS IN THE WORLD
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December 29th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
OMG! I’v never seen somthing so beautiful before!
Hey btw, i’m sandra i live in oslo.
anyways! GREAT PICS!
Loved lions seens i was 4!
Even priteded to be one when i was 6…
Beautiful animales, great pics, love the “blogg” <3
January 7th, 2011 at 1:31 am
nhan kau q sa white lions…
kanang simang na turtles, mai pa wa ka nititi dra.
kitan q tinuod white lions sa zoo…try mo!
January 11th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
they are really beautiful how did you get to work with so mansy big cats.i am 20 and wouldlove to get into this field can you help me out..
January 12th, 2011 at 1:17 am
You guys are right the white lion that is not albino is a recessive trait but does not nessicarily mean that they are inbred. When the egg goes through meiosis the egg gets both the recesive allels; meaning, two lions from completely oppisite sides of Africa that could be thousands of generations disconected could produce a white cub if they were both heterogenetic. To bash these animals becuase they are rare is ridiculous they are beautiful if not genetically ideal for the wild they are not abominations to be scorned or feel bad for they are just as healthy as a blond haired child from parents with dark hair, and it could be admired that we have figured out how to bred a white lion after all that is how genetics started.
P.S lol i love the comment about the ice age in africa lol classic.
January 12th, 2011 at 1:20 am
P.P.S Its kinda like almost black lions just genetics or white skinned people and black skinned people. White cow brown cow same thing.
January 15th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
All these pictures are nice collection
January 19th, 2011 at 11:24 am
fantastic all of bad comments are fu.. . believe yourself and enough as i said fan tas tic
January 20th, 2011 at 2:41 am
zoos should take great care when deciding to breed white lions. if it’s true, they are succeptable to malformation. it wouldn’t be done to humans would it? yes, they are drop over gorgeous. they should not be treated as a $$ source. they are to be respected. and may that hunter who murdered a white lion for a trophy drop dead tommorrow. hunting should be banned altogether because it is wrong. why is it so difficult to understand?
January 31st, 2011 at 1:19 pm
they are so sweet and i just love lions
February 15th, 2011 at 10:18 am
i love it
February 27th, 2011 at 1:25 am
the 3rd picture is photoshopped.
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:09 am
White Lions ARE real! Sadly the whiteness in lion (or other animals)is like sickle cell in human. It is due to the recessive gene known as chinchilla gene which gives the animal the leucistic trait of reduced pigmentation in its coat/fur. This is a congenital abnormality and its occurrence is very rare.
Note: Leucism is not the same as albinism which is total lack of pigmentation in skin/fur.
March 4th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
this is the coolest thing ive ever seen! i want one:)
March 4th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
they really cute man. i wish i have 1 of them
March 5th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
i request all the people of the world to save the forest and wild animal’s. these pic’s are exclent.
March 17th, 2011 at 12:14 am
these are beautiful lions! they look so sophisticated
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:54 am
I THINK THEY ARE VERY VERY BEAUTIFULLLLLLLLLLL
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:55 am
THY R IS COOL
March 28th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE. Where can I see these amazing beasts (creatures, lions.).
April 7th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Where were this photos taken cause the background is lovly, and where are this lions located? in a zoo or in a jungle ? at the moment?
April 12th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
they are cute i love them
April 14th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
yo yo yo dis red and listen to me u bunch of nerds u all suck the wite lions should eat u all up with all of your stupid words shut up already and do something about it soon there will be no wite lion to talk about SO WHAT WILL U DO ABOUT THE EXTINKTION OF THE WITE LION O AND IM ONLY 13
April 14th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
YO BLAYN get off the website u dummy
April 16th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I think they are beautiful, lions are my favorite animals and these just add to the list
April 25th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I dont think humans are responsible for white lions if that was true how do find them in the wild… its genetics like every other animal or human that is differnt..
May 1st, 2011 at 12:13 pm
all of the pic are so cute i want one so bad but my mama and stepdad will not let mer have one until I get a job and a hm of my own
May 5th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
OMG!! i love animals, especially all kinds of Felines<33
i cnt stand how there's always some ignorant asshole trying to screw everything up thouu. Great pix.! i loooove animals. and ppl like you, which are needed more now-a-days.( :
May 12th, 2011 at 4:55 am
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May 12th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
awwwwwwwww cuuuuuuttttttee butt where it from?
May 17th, 2011 at 2:49 am
this is really a beautifullllllllllll creation of god
May 20th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
woundful pic’s