White lion male

[goooner]

Taken at a lion park 'close' to Pretoria in Saouth africa. This dominant male was obviously in a recent fight, the other male looked less injured, but apparently this old boy won.

As always C&C always welcome.

#1 Marking his territory


#2 Finding a nice shady spot to lie down

#3


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#4


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#5


#6 The other male laying with a female
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[jcdeboever]

Nice. He is pretty battered up.

 

[ZombiesniperJr]

Nice set are they both white lions?

 

[Gary A.]

Noble beasts. Thank you for sharing.

 

[goooner]

Thank you, no idea why the last photos are smaller, they're all from Flickr.

 

[goooner]

@ZombiesniperJr
Yes these are both white males. This here is the normal colouring. I guess they have a breeding programme going on here.

 

[birdbonkers84]

These are ace, poor male lion is showing the signs of defending his territory.

 

[WesternGuy]

Nice shots. Are these "white lions" albinos, leucistic, or it here some other reason they are white? Just curious.

WesternGuy

 

[BrentC]

Great set.

 

[goooner]

These are ace, poor male lion is showing the signs of defending his territory.

Great set.

Thank you.

 

[goooner]

Nice shots. Are these "white lions" albinos, leucistic, or it here some other reason they are white? Just curious.

WesternGuy

These are not alibno's, as can be seen by the lips, and eye pigmentations. They are leucistic (recessive gene mutation), which strangely enough does not really impede them in the wild. They were 1st seen in the Timbavati region to west of Kruger park.

Thanks for looking.

 

[WesternGuy]

Nice shots. Are these "white lions" albinos, leucistic, or it here some other reason they are white? Just curious.

WesternGuy

These are not alibno's, as can be seen by the lips, and eye pigmentations. They are leucistic (recessive gene mutation), which strangely enough does not really impede them in the wild. They were 1st seen in the Timbavati region to west of Kruger park.

Thanks for looking.

Thanks gooner. We often see some of our birds here that are leucistic, but I am not sure if there are any of our large wild animals have been encountered in a leucistic phase.

WesternGuy

 

[Havana]

Nice set of images.