The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens bought the 18-month-old animals, each weighing 120 kilograms, from South Africa. The two, one a male and the other a female, are getting along well, zoo officials said.
It is now home to 117 species of animals, including threatened ones like the Bengal white tiger, the Asian golden cat, the Indochina tiger, and the crested argus.
The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion. It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world.
