#kiros isnt albino

[croatoancassiel]

KIROS ISN'T ALBINO☹️☹️☹️!!!!!!

theres a big difference between white lions and albino lions and kiros and his pride are white lions. i mean it would make significantly less sense if kiros and his pride were albino because thats just insane sniffles!! its a super rare genetic mutation and it would take a an insane amount of selective breeding for a while pride to have it... i used to have a fixation on lions and i am a bio geek so im very sorry about this rant‼️

they ARE both genetic mutations so it makes sense as to why people have this misconception but albinism is the inability to produce or distribute melanin, which is responsible for the pigmentation of the animal, so its nearly impossible for albino lions to have normal pigmented eyes and skin, like kiros and the outsiders have. kiros and the outsiders have blue, sometimes brown eyes while albino lions would have purple or redish tinted eyes!

kiros is featured with a black tipped tail, black skin (as seen on the nose and pads) and blue eyes showing that he does have pigmentation! his hunters follow this pattern too, minus the tail I believe.

so while albino lions lack melanin almost all together, white lions' melanin makes their pigmentation lighter! white lions are leucistic and that is a recessive trait. that means that the allele for this white colouring needs two recessive of the alleles for it for the trait to actually show up and this allele is super rare unfortunately.

here are some real life white lions!! most white lions don't even have white fur, a lot of the time its that really light yellow as shown in a couple pictures above!! but i believe about 13 are actually alive and well to this day:( thankfully there is an organization called the global white lion protection trust to help take care of them!

gahh please feel free to correct me if i got anything wrong!!!i am scatterbrained and there was no organizational thoughts going into this. i just finished this movie and god did i actually enjoy it and kiros stuck out to me so quickly i adore him!!! so i wanted to clear up the misconception on what he was because i've seen a lot of people claim he's albino😞 sighhhss..... i love lions they're my spirit animal(dw im indigenous!!) and they are so near and dear to my heart