Belgrade Zoo is richer for four white lion cubs, which with his mother placed in a special corner of the garden. White lions are the result of very rare genetic mutations. The cubs were placed with his mother in a corner of the garden, and a team of veterinarians, volunteers and staff watch over them 24 hours a day.
White lions are the result of rare genetic mutations, which means that it is not an albino lions, and their color varies to pink. They first noticed early last century in an area, the plateau in the Timbavati, South Africa, where the most abundant.
Belgrade zoo in the world in recent years has become known as a center of natural reproduction of white lions. The first specimen obtained in 2005. Year. Meanwhile, practice has shown that air at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers favors this extremely rare type of “sword”, because for the past year and a half, the “Garden of Good Hope” was born eleven lions even in the world is hardly any more of 200 individuals. A few white lions adorn the Belgrade zoo gardens in Europe and America.
The first white lions, Vamba and Masha, arrived to Belgrade at the 2005th The National Park of “Kruger” in South Africa. Belgrade garden then became the first in Europe to have these rare animals.
The first six months of each white lions are critical because they are usually born with a genetic defect, so that most of them have already died in the first month. When they come into the world, cubs weigh about 1500 grams, and most in life can have 250 pounds.
