Tuesday, 7 June 2011

BREAKING NEWS - White Lions Are Back!








After almost 4 months, the white lions have made a return to our area!  We sent out a whole tracking team to locate them this morning, and eventually towards the end of the drive they managed to find them!

Grant was the only one who got to see them - they appeared a bit nervous of the vehicles, which is understandable considering their 4-month absence...but I will let Grant fill you in on the details later when he is back from drive!

Hi there all,

I've added some pic's that I took so that you can see how big they have become and in what great condition they are in. Truth be told, on finding them I forgot I had a camera and only came too as they were moving off. Realising I had not taken any pic's I shot these off more as proof for Chad. It was great to just sit and marvel at our long lost friends!

I'll post a blog with the entire story asap, lets hope it's one of many!
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 June 2011 at 11:01

    GREAT NEWS, man, I was waiting for this news for a while!!!
    Thanks Chad. Can't wait to see some photos of them!

    Lourens

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  2. Carly Edwards7 June 2011 at 11:09

    Amazing....so glad they are still around :D

    Carly

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  3. Anonymous7 June 2011 at 13:44

    WOW, they are looking great!! Thanks for the photos Grant!!!
    Can't wait for the story, I can not believe they are both still doing this well, that is great news!!!

    Lourens

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  4. Anonymous7 June 2011 at 14:00

    How beautifully they've grown... gread sight to see and great news for all of you at Motswari.
    Wanda

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  5. Agnes Escriva7 June 2011 at 19:43

    Yes, Yes, Yes Yes !!!!!

    I'm very very happy.

    I hope they'll be there in 15 days.... :-))

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  6. Yves Strybos7 June 2011 at 20:22

    Great news.......! Hopefully they traverse Ingwelala some time.....!

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  7. Chad Cocking7 June 2011 at 21:41

    thanks for all the comments - had a great sighting of them in the afternoon again - be sure to check out the blog post for tomorrow!

    @yves - they actually came through ingwelala last night, but dont ever appear to spend time on there for some reason - only once do they appear to have spent more than a day there...just glad to have them this side again, instead of opposite phalaborwa mine!

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  8. Tiffany Smith8 June 2011 at 07:03

    Thanks for the beautiful pics! They are amazing animals!

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  9. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 14:15

    With blue eyes they are not genetically albinos, any thoughts on the genetic color factors being expressed here? What colors were their parents and have you had white lions before?

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  10. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 17:49

    Wonderful sighting - you guys are so privilaged to see all these cats.

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  11. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 18:29

    Just most awesome. They look so good!

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  12. Chad Cocking8 June 2011 at 19:16

    thanks so much for all the comments and views - was great to see them again, and yes, they look fantastic - they had a zebra kill today that Herald got to see :)

    @anonymous 14:15 - thanks for the comments! you are 100% correct, they are not albinos, they do contain pigmentation, but its a condition known as leucism...both parents are normal tawny coloured lions, but clearly both carried the genes...the grandmother of the whites (i.e. tawny mother's own mom) had white cubs in 2006, so we knew that the daughters and sons probably had the gene...so it was not a complete surprise when they were born - even the mother of the whites is a slighty lighter colour than a non-gene carrying individual...hope that answers the questions :)

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