List all the leucistic or albino animals you have personally seen. For any newbies unfamiliar with the terms, it means white animals that are not normally white (so polar bears do not count, because they are supposed to be white). Please state if it was at a zoo or the wild. My post, so I will make the first reply.
tiger (with and without stripes) - numerous zoos lion - a couple zoos serval - a cat rescue center turkey vulture - a Texas zoo vermillion flycatcher - manmade wetlands in Tucson African crested porcupine - a zoo in England red lechwe - a zoo in England American alligator - several zoos tegu - reptile rescue center in Arizona Burmese python - almost every zoo I go to western diamondback - several zoos eastern diamondback - a couple zoos
African Clawed Frog (Maritime Aquarium) American Alligator (Rainforest Reptiles*, Maritime Aquarium) Argentine Horned Frog (Rainforest Reptiles) Bennett's Wallaby (Busch Gardens Tampa) Eastern Ratsnake (Beardsley Zoo) Indian Peafowl (Beardsley Zoo) Monocled Cobra (Rainforest Reptiles) Tiger (Southwick's Zoo, Busch Gardens Tampa, Lowry Park Zoo) Can't recall if I saw a white Dromedary Camel at Bronx or not, I wasn't really paying attention to the camels. *Rainforest Reptiles was a travelling reptile group that was staying at Beardsley Zoo for a while, I'm not really a fan of the group.
Red Kangaroo Peafowl Bennets wallaby Hairy nosed wombat Corn snake Swamp wallaby All of the above were seen at the Gorge Wildlife Park
Some kind of Wallaby (Southwicks Zoo) Cavy (a pet) Tiger (Southwicks) Lion (Capron Park Zoo, though really I think that Ramses is more of a beige color and not white.) Rat Snake (The Ecotarium) Peafowl (Southwicks)
Indian peafowl - Reid Park Zoo bullfrog - Nashville Zoo Eurasian lynx - Nashville Zoo wallaby (species?) - Wildlife World Zoo
Echidna - Taronga Zoo and Symbio Red Kangaroo - Gorge Wildlife Park Eastern Grey Kangaroo - a few places Western Grey Kanagaroo - Warrawong Wallaroo - Featherdale Bennett's/Rednecked Wallaby - a few places Tammar Wallaby - Gorge Wildlife Park, Featherdale Common Wombat - Gorge Wildlife Park Koala Tiger Lion Emu - Featherdale Black Swan - Gorge Kookaburra - Featherdale Magpie - Gorge Zebra Finch Java Sparrow Cockatiel Budgerigar Ringneck Parrot Princess Parrot Peafowl Alligators - Audubon Alligator Snapping Turtle Desert Tortoise - ASDM Bluetongue Skink - Australian Reptile Park (ARP) Rattlesnake - ARP Asian Cobra - ARP Tiger Snake Red-bellied Black Snake Marsh Snake Burmese Python Boa Constrictor Ball Python Carpet Python Cornsnake Those without locations are either: too many to mention, private individuals, or I can't remember. I also have a feeling I've seen an albino quokka somewhere. Hix
I’ve seen lots of albino and leucistic animals of many species; the more unusual mammals that I’ve seen include:- • albino mona monkey (many times at London Zoo during the 1960s) • “Snowflake” the famous white gorilla at Barcelona Zoo • albino scimitar-horned oryx (Catskill Game Farm in 1984)
Red and Grey Kangaroos Echidna (not sure which kind) Hairy nose wombat Bennett Wallaby Meerkat Peafowl New Zealand Black Swan All were in captivity.
I should probably called the swan the "New Zealand Not-So-Black Swan", it was very unusual. Someone actually put a photo of it up a while ago: http://www.zoochat.com/77/white-black-swan-159432/
Would be Short-beaked (the one in Australia). The only captive long-beaks (from New Guinea) are at Taronga Zoo and Moscow Zoo. Where did you see the albino echidna? You shouldn't call it New Zealand at all! - the species is endemic to Australia (although there are some ferals in NZ). It is a very cool bird though, wish I'd seen it when I visited Gorge.
Never saw this photo before. It has very 'light-pied' markings rather than being pure white and perhaps so not as arresting as a pure White one might be.
Score on two out of these three- not the Oryx though. I also remember an Albino Rhesus macaque at Bristol Zoo. Apart from some other ungulates e.g. Blackbuck, perhaps the most unusual one I've seen was a 'white' elephant in Dusit Zoo ,Bangkok- from memory it wasn't really white but did have paler pigmentation than usual.
Lots of white animals seen but some of the more unussual : White Raccoon - Zie-ZOO - the Netherlands White Raccoon dog - also Zie-Zoo White caracara - Best Zoo - the Netherlands
Over the years, visitors to Chester zoo have frequently seen a wild, pure white jackdaw - sometimes known as 'Ashley', but I don't know if he/she has been seen since SMR put this excellent photo in the Gallery (I would have used one of my own photos, but I think it disappeared when the Gallery was tidied up). Alan
