Rare white lion cubs born in the Spanish animal reserve

The two five-day-old male and female white lion cubs were brought to a special room on Friday (October 29) to control their feeding in Jimena de la Frontera, a mountain village in the Andalusia region.

According to the Global White Lion Protection Trust, the animals are not albinos, but “a genetic rarity” in the Timbavati area in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Her parents are common African lions.

They are classified as Panthera Leo, which means they are not recognized as “other” by current scientific labeling and therefore are not legally protected by the organization.

This means they can be hunted or traded to extinction, even though fewer than 13 white lions live in their natural habitat in the wild.