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White Zebras

This is one of the only two photographs I've took by myself in 1988, a few years before the last of them died.

White Zebras
Zebraduiker, 7 Jul 2008
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    • Zebraduiker
      This is one of the only two photographs I've took by myself in 1988, a few years before the last of them died.
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    • Potto
      Interesting....
    • Zebraduiker
      Yes, but I prefer animals with their " original" color, so I don't like white tigers and white lions.
    • Arizona Docent
      Woa - that is bizarre looking.
    • Saro
      Were they wild caught originally or did this anomaly occur at the zoo?
    • Tarsius
      One mare was caught in africa in 1958, she has bred with a normal stallion several times, all offspring of this pair was normal coloured. Then the mother was mated by her own son, she gave birth to white foals. So both parents must have the white gene to get white zebras. So the breeding was totally inbred, but the white zebras couldn't reach a high age, mostly they died under the age of 10.

      I know, there were some white zebras in the USA also, but I don't know, if they are still alive.
    • Hix
      Looks like a dilute mutation.
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    Opel Zoo Kronberg
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    Zebraduiker
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