WHITE PEACOCK

The White Peacock is frequently mistaken for an albino, but it is a colour variety of Indian Blue Peacock. Its white colour makes it looks really magnificent and elegant.



Peacocks, The term (peafowl) can refer to the two species of bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are best known for the male's extravagant tail, which it displays as part of courtship. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen. Although commonly used, peacock is an incorrect term to refer to both sexes. The peahen is brown.
The two species are:
Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus (Asiatic)
Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus (Asiatic)

The Asiatic peafowl genus Pavo includes the familiar Indian Peafowl or Indian Blue Peafowl and the much rarer Green Peafowl or Dragonbird. The Green Peafowl breeds from Myanmar east to Java. The IUCN lists the Green Peafowl as vulnerable to extinction due to hunting and a reduction in extent and quality of habitat. Wild turkeys and imported peacocks crossbred in the wild to create a unique species named the Peaturkey. Native only to Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Traditionally, if anyone saw white peacock, your fortune turned better!
White peacock is a resemblance of good luck. One way to recognize its genuineness is that its shadow forms on the same side from where the light comes i.e on the opposite side of where it is supposed to form.

WHITE KANGAROO

When European explorers first saw these strange hopping animals they asked a native Australian (aborigine) what they were called. He replied "kangaroo" meaning "I don't understand" your question. The explorers thought this was the animal's name. And that's how the kangaroo got its name.Albino wallabys usually bear brown-colored offsprings and a baby kangaroo all-white as its mother is a rarity.

WHITE LION

Hi, I came across an interesting episode of White Lions in animal planet. I have heard of white tigers, but this was even more amazing. So i wanted to add them up to my world.



Here are a few facts about these wonderful creatures.....
For centuries rumors of mysterious white lions (Panthera leo krugeri) had been circulating in South Africa. Legend said the white pelage represented the good to be found in all creatures.

White lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride's book The White Lions of Timbavati. According to Linda Tucker, in "Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God" they are bred in camps in South Africa as trophies for canned hunts. White lions were first recorded in 1928 and in the early 1940s. Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa introduced a white lion couple, Queen and Jabulani, to the vast reserve in 2003 with the vision of letting them roam free and wild.



In May 2007 four white lion cubs were born at Jurques Zoo in France. Confirmation of the existence of white lions only came in the late twentieth century. Sightings were first reported in the early 1900s, and continued although not frequently.
White lions were first seen in the United States in 1993.Luckily there is more then one genetic strain of white lion to pool from, unlike that of the white tiger.




Today only around 300 white lions survive worldwide. The bloodlines are represented worldwide in zoos from Africa, Japan, Germany, USA and Canada.