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Before going to this prestigious zoo located nearby Metz, I had never seendidn't seehave never seenI don't know a white lion and its white cubs. It is worth admireworth admiringworth to admireI don't know them. The male on a large platform watchedwas watchingwatchesI don't know its mischievous offspring nonchalantly, while the two undisciplined cubs were doing eithereither didwere either doingI don't know somersaults or were fighting with their mother. Look at the cub on the stage. It is cute, is itisn't itI don't know ? mightcancouldI don't know the cubs hurt each other ? Certainly not. It is no use worryingno use worryno use worringI don't know for them because, according to the rules of the very young big cats, they always bite their playmates without ever grabbedever grabbingnever grabbingI don't know by the throat tightly or clawing seriously. However this whiteness had puzzledpuzzlespuzzledI don't know me. I askedhad askedhave askedI don't know the staff in charge of these white lions. The staff who took care of these lions contented to givewas content with givingwas contented to giveI don't know a few explanations. They told us the white lions weren't neitherwere neitherare neitherI don't know subspecies of the usual tawny lions nor albinos. They were leucistic. What does leucistic mean ? It is when in the DNA a gene responsible for giving the colour of the animal's hair becamehas become[had becomeI don't know defective. In such a case, there is a reduced pigment production which giveshas givenwill giveI don't know pale mane in the future, pale hair and pale tail tip instead of the usual tawny colour. However the pigment remainshas remainedremainedI don't know in their eyes (hazel, golden or green-grey, blue-grey), in their paw pads (black) and in their lips. Nowadays a large part of the white lions reside in zoos. Some people think that the white lions can't survivewont survivecouldn't surviveI don't know in the wild. However in 1938 in Timbavati located in South Africa a white lion came into sight in Kruger National Park. In 1979 several white lions have been locatedhad been locatedwere locatedI don't know and litters of white cubs were observed. In 2003 The Global White Lion Protection Trust attemptedhad attemptedhave attemptedI don't know the first reintroduction of males and females in the Timbavati region. The pride of white lions were able to huntwas able to hunthas been able to huntI don't know successfully and the females gave birth to white cubs in good health. Their next objective would bewouldbeI don't know to restore the number of white lions and tawny lions in the same proportion.