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The Lion (Panthera Leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae and one of four "big cats" in the panthera genus. The lion is the second largest living cat, after the tiger. The male lion, easily recognized by his mane, weighs between 150 and 250 kg (330 and 550 lb). The average weight of a male African Lion is 190 kg (420lb). The biggest wild lion on record was a very large male which weighed in at 312.7 kg (688 lb). Female lions are much smaller, weighing between 117 and 167kg (240 lb and 370 lb). In the wild, lions live for around 10-14 years, while in captivity they can live over 20 years. To reproduce, the lions mate for long periods of time.Everything in my gallery is © Leisa Hennessy. All rights reserved.
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very lovely photo 
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yes i know im quite sad about that.... i should re do it when i get some time
Thanks for taking the time to comment mate
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Adorable shot. I believe the Female is a Timbavati White Lion there are only about 30 in the world. It's from a recessive gene similar to albinism called luecism.
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you are right mate.. this lioness stems from the white lions of Philly.. but here in TO they only have one white lion.. so she will breed with her normal male.
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The white lions I've seen at Cincinnati zoo and Toledo zoo are all owned by Sigfried and Roy on a sort of permanent loan. I've only heard them be refered to as Timbavati Lions. They are really gorgeous its great to see that other locations have them since they are so rare.
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this is some of the info i have found out.. Long i know but worth the read
" Timbavati is a small game reserve adjacent to Kruger National Park in South Africa. It was formed in 1955 when twenty-eight landowners got together and decided to combine their holdings and dedicate themselves to the preservation of the wildlife thereupon. In 1975, a man named Chris McBride was studying lions there as part of the fieldwork necessary for his masters degree in wildlife management. In early October of that year, his daughter, LAN, and her son, in for a visit, stopped to watch a lioness along the road. To their amazement, two snow white cubs appeared with the new mother along with one normal, tabby colored one. Lan rushed back to get her father, who returned with her to see the cubs. McBride eventually wrote two books about the life of the cubs..."The White Lions of Timbavati" and "Operation White Lion". Both are out of print now but the first, at least, should be pretty easy to find... Check the local library. The cubs turned out to be a male, who came to be called "Temba" (Zulu for "Hope"), and a female... "Tombi" ("Girl"). The normal colored cub was a litter-mate that the McBrides named "Vela". Later, a third white cub, "Phuma" was found in a different pride, but soon disappeared and is presumed to have died.
Even though the cubs were snow-white... they WEREN'T albinos. They had normal yellowish-brown eyes instead of the pink eyes that an albino would have. The white color is caused by a recessive gene, much like the white tigers of India.
In the first book,"The White Lions of Timbavati", McBride tells about the discovery of the cubs, and of the concern he had for the survival of the very special cubs. In "Operation White Lion" he tells of his final decision to capture the cubs and of how he went about it.
Temba, Tombi, and Vela were eventually sent to the National Zoo in Pretoria, South Africa. Vela was sold, unknown where... Tombi died before ever producing... and Temba died in 1996 after producing several offspring. The known surviving animals in the strain are one heterozygous male in Pretoria... two white females and a heterozygous male that are at the Zoological Animal Reproduction Center in Indiana... and two heterozygous males from the Cincinnati zoo that have been moved to a private reserve in Africa. (Heterozygous lions, at least in the present context, are normal-colored animals that carry the recessive gene for the white coloration.)
This was not the only strain of white lions to come from the Timbavati area, however. The predominant strain today comes from a heterozygous male caught by the Johannesburg zoo in 1977. The '77 male came from a different pride than Temba, Tombi, and Vela, but when he was bred to his own daughters he produced white cubs. These cats, and their offspring, are represented in the Philadelphia and Toronto zoos as well as some in Germany, China, and Japan. This is also the strain owned by Siegfried and Roy "
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I find this information confusing. 
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Thanks mate for that .. yep i used the first link in this post [link] this morning
also there is a link for a news article i found also you might find interesting
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the moment you captured is wonderful,
one of god's miracles on earth
i love nature, especially in your lens.
well done
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Thank you for the wonderful compliment 
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this is terribly adorable! i've been looking for photos like this all over DA with the lion and the lioness, but i never find one. great shot! 
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you are right you dont see many do you???
Thanks for commenting
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Aw! That's a beautiful picture.
Lions are my favorite animals, and I absolutely adore this picture.
Amazing capture.
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aw such a sweet photo
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