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August 15th 2008 09:51
Adult White Lion
Regarded as divine by locals, white lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride's book The White Lions of Timbavati. White cubs occasionally turn up among tawny lions in the Timbavati and Kruger National Park regions in South Africa. Because the white gene is recessive and is masked by the normal tawny colour, white lions remain rare in the wild and only occur when two lions carrying the mutant gene are mated together. The greatest population of white lions is in zoos where they are deliberately bred for colour.
White Lion Cubs
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article White lion.
**The image of the adult Lion is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
**The image of the cubs was found by Damn Funny Pictures. . The source of this image was this National Geographic page.
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