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
[...] comments and emails I decided to write a special post for another type of big cat, the White Tiger. As I said here I love animals and I get angry every time I read about stupid people who torture [...]
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!
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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…!