SOUTH AFRICA - Animals

The White Lion

It is subject to selective breeding in zoos around the world. According to some African beliefs , this animal is divine and brings luck if your cross its path. Its existence was revealed to the public years ago. Their fur color varies from blond to almost pure white. This color gives the Lions a disadvantage in the nature because it makes them more visible to their prey.

The white lion is an endangered animal.

Like white tigers, this form has risks of inbreeding and therefore occurrence of genetic disorders such as heart problems or paralysis.

The first observations of white lions go back to 1928 and the early 1940s. In 1959, a clan with two white lion cubs was observed near the Kruger National Park before disappearing.

 

The mystery of the White Lions « is a book with many revelations on many levels ».

Firstly, and this is the most important point is the fascinating story of a rare genetic anomaly, lions with blue eyes and amber eyes that are truly white and not albino. It appears that the white lion can not be a random mutation, because otherwise it would have spread throughout the bioregion, which is not the case. These specimens are confined to the sacral region of Timbavati. In their case, the recessive white gene does not produce albino and probably involves a game of cat genes which to date are not determined.

Although the first observation of a white lion by a European witness dates only from 1938, the Zulu shaman associates the apparition of these lions after the fall of a meteorite in Timbavati around 1600.
Their identity can not be understood from outside the region in which they appeared: Timbavati, which means "place of arrival on the ground" was a sacred place well before it was declared a game reserve by the President of White South Africa, Paul Kruger. Sangaan shamans, known for their expertise in knowledge of lions traditionally forbade hunting in the Timbavati region .

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Timbavati is located on a major meridian, a line that goes from north to south, the Nilotic meridian (31 ° of longitude ) passing through the Giza plateau on which, at a time which is indeterminate in the antiquity, a massive stone lion was erected, the Sphinx. Southbound in the depths of Africa, the meridian passes through Laetoli, Tanzania, and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a huge megalithic tradition associated with the lion. At its terminus, this meridian reached the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, not far from the area where the white lions appeared. The Nilotic meridian is connected with the most important archaeological sites in regard to the current theory of human evolution, the Leotoli and Olduvai Gorge, where the primate skeleton called Lucy was discovered, in the Rift Valley, a rift created by the seismic uplift of the mantle of the Earth.

Linda Tucker suggests that the phenomenon of white lions is deeply correlated with what we know, but we have yet to learn about the origins of our own species and about our survival over the long term . It connects with the Nilotic meridian Zulu legend of an underground river, corresponding to the Nile, which flows all the way to the tip of Africa and also with the overthrow of the North-South magnetism of the Earth, which poles should soon be reversed if scientists and geologists are right.

ALLAN & VALENTIN