white lion

Brother and sister pair Kasal and Prim, looking regal as ever in the sunlight (March 2024.)

Taken March 2013.

The zoo's four lions, who are kept in pairs and split between side-by-side enclosures (Taken January 20th, 2023).

The maneless Kasal (foreground) and his sister Prim socialize between the fence with their sister Tess, all 7 years old. (Taken January 20th, 2023).

I recently made my way to Attleboro, Massachusetts, to visit the Capron Park Zoo and the WWI Memorial Park and Zoo. I already wrote about my experience at the WWI Memorial Park and Zoo, and if you would like to hear more about the place, you can read my review here. This thread contains my...

Taken in April, 2022. Kasal and Prim, two of the zoo's trio of white lions, who arrived from African Lion Safari in November of 2021.

From 2013 to 2018, Taman Safari Bogor keep a liger (Panthera leo x Panthera tigris) named Nala. He was discovered by the authority in a fancy villa in Bogor, it is suspected that Nala was a result of an illegal breeding program carried out by the exotic animals syndicate. Nala's mother was a...

Due to concerns over inbreeding, most zoos have stopped breeding these feline color variants. The purpose of this thread is not to discuss the ethics of the movement because that has already been discussed on many different threads on this site, and a general consensus seems to already have been...

Looking very majestic

The AZA released their white paper on the breeding and keeping of white lions and tigers (and king cheetahs) in 2011. Since that time, quite a few zoos have still produced cubs, either by breeding two cats that are known to carry the recessive genes or by outright breeding white animals, like...

I not that the Al Ain Zoo Park have recently obtained White Lions from South Africa and are promoting them widely in the regions press. Again there there is implied intent to breed from the 'rare species'. You can read more by reading HERE