do white lions exist at all?

Answer 1

Yes, they are albinos.

Answer 2

Do White Lions Exist

Answer 3

Never heard,not even an albino.
There are white tigers,black panthers
There are lions with dark mane.
But no white lions.

Answer 4

it's possible. White animals, usually albino's, in nature are rare, usually because the only place a white animal won't stick out is in snow, so they will die more easily in the wild than normally colored animals (they don't have the camoflage to hide from prey or predators that normal animals do). This mutation will happen though, and their rarity is why people are so excited to find fully grown white animals.

So to answer, they can exist. I don't know if one is known of right now though.

Answer 5

The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. 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. Because the 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 color.

White lions are not albino lions. Instead, the white color is caused by a recessive gene known as chinchilla or color inhibitor. They vary from blonde through to near white. This coloration gives white lions a distinct disadvantage in nature because they are highly visible. This gives them away to their prey and makes them an attractive target for hunters. According to Linda Tucker, in "Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God" they are bred in camps in South Africa as trophies for canned hunts.

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Answer 6

white lions do exit but are rare. they are not diffrent species but a mutation in there DNA that changes the colour skin to white. Actually they are the same lion species with diffrent colour skin

Answer 7

I know there are white tigers, and only white lions if they are albino or something

Answer 8

yes. More elusive than the African leopard, rarer than the legendary snow leopard of the Himalayas, and as white as the polar bear of the Alaska, rumours of the existence of pure White Lions have lived in the African Oral Tradition for centuries. But there is only one place on earth were they have materialised – the Timbavati region, bordering the Kruger National Park of South Africa.


To the African elders, used to looking for spiritual signs in nature, the White Lions’ arrival was the fulfilment of ancient prophecy that identified these majestic creatures as angelic messengers from God. Identified as a sacred site by African Kings for many hundreds of years, the name “Tsimba-vaati” in the ancient Shangaan language means “the place where starlions came down from the heavens”. Born to the golden lion prides that roam the vast Timbavati region, the African elders explained their mysterious white colour in spiritual terms, meaning purity and enlightenment, beyond all racial connotations. White is sunlight, all the colours of the spectrum in one - beyond colour, creed, race or gender. The White Lions are a magnificent icon for South Africa’s rainbow nation, and a unifying symbol across world culture.

Prized for their rarity, the White Lions were artificially removed from their natural habitat into captive breeding/hunting programs in South Africa, and sent to zoos and circuses around the globe, most famously Siegfried and Roy’s magic act in Las Vegas.

Tragically, all White Lions today are in captivity. After their forced removals from their sacred homelands, they have been extinct in the wild for over 12 years.

After studying the ancient knowledge of the White Lions with African elders from all cultures for over ten years, Linda Tucker went on to found the Global White Lion Protection Trust in 2002. The mission of the Trust is not only to protect the lions themselves, which are at great risk from aggressive speed-breeding programs and trophy hunting, but also to protect the indigenous knowledge that holds them sacred.

At last, after many years of battle, the primary objective of the Global White Lion Protection Trust has been achieved – to return this unique animal to the ancestral land that is their birthright.

Answer 9

no white lions do not exist if they would existing in past they would be extinct

Answer 10

Yes, they're beautiful. They say the white color prevents them from hunting but they say the males don't really hunt anyway. They just fight lions from rival prides and hyenas.

Answer 11

Yes, due to some genetic interactions it happens so.