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Paradise Wildlife Park PWP - White Lions?

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by JamesB, 3 Sep 2008.

  1. JamesB

    JamesB Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I know that paradise wildlife park used to house white lions upto a while ago, what happened to them as i believe they were only one of two collections to house them in the u.k. (wmsp being the other)
     
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    They still have them,but they are the proper colour and not the talcum powdered coloured ones at West Mids.When i visited on27/07/2008 they had 1.2.1 (Panthera leo krugeri).
     
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    JamesB Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    so why are wmsp still boasting about having the only white lions in uk?
     
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    Have the Paradise Park lions bred then? Where were their females sourced from? Are they 2 from WMSP? Do WMSP display all 19 lions together? There must be fights between the males now?
     
  5. James27

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    I think PWP just has one male white lion. And WMSP does boast the only PRIDE of white lions, so technically they're not lying :p
    And Rolo and his oldest son (who I think is called Casper) rotate between the house and outdoor enclosures, along with some of the females, although I don't know why.
     
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    Paradise Park has females again to got with the male sourced from a collection in Europe that keeps this sub-species and they have a cub that was rejected and is been hand reared.
     
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  7. JamesB

    JamesB Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    well i think someone should pop wmsp a email, as i think it kind of lying about its main attraction, it should state biggest pride in the u.k
     
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    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    Well they are the only truely White Lions in the U.K as Paradise are just lighter normal coloured Lions that just happen to carry the White gene.
     
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    paradise used to have a male and female white lion but unfortunaly the female was put to sleep as she had a problem with her spine? not sure what it was. so they still have the male white lion but have now brought in a female who carries the gene also.
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