The World Of Albino Animals (PHOTOS)

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First Posted: 09-18-09 05:04 PM   |   Updated: 11-18-09 05:12 AM

From tigers to peacocks, these albino animals are awesomely beautiful, a little bit scary and definitely worth a look. Vote on your favorite.

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From tigers to peacocks, these albino animals are awesomely beautiful, a little bit scary and definitely worth a look. Vote on your favorite. Get HuffPost Green On Facebook and Twitter!...
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So amazing animals!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:16 AM on 09/21/2009
- ImissBush I'm a Fan of ImissBush 35 fans permalink
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racist!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:19 AM on 09/20/2009
- Smirk I'm a Fan of Smirk 30 fans permalink
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Don't albinos usually have pink/red eyes even their irises lack pigmentation?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 09/19/2009
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check out the Albino Squirrel Preservation Society at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx.

http://orgs.unt.edu/asps/about.htm

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:33 PM on 09/19/2009
- byla I'm a Fan of byla 30 fans permalink
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I had to flip through to see the peacock. Where I live there are tons of peacocks roaming around. You have to stop for them while they cross the roads. In Charlotte, NC traffic is usually stopped for Geese. Here it's peacocks. In St. Augustine at the Fountain of Youth there is a white peacock. I'm not sure a white peacock is that unusual. The gorilla looks scary and the white tigers are gorgeous!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 AM on 09/19/2009

The white peacock may or may not be albino. I've raised both and, other than their genetics, they are vitually identical.

The tiger cub (the second tiger picture) is DEFINITELY not albino. He/she is a white tiger. He has coloration. Very different from an albino tiger. Albino, by definition, is the complete lack of color due to a rare genetic variation.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 AM on 09/19/2009
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Thats not true, Albinos are animals that have little to no melanin in their skin. Their are plenty of ALBINOS with blue eyes. "white" people lying once again so that they can deflect what they really are.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:32 AM on 09/19/2009
- byla I'm a Fan of byla 30 fans permalink
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Bitter much? That was pretty hateful and most if not all albinos don't have blue eyes. Blue eyes are a recessive gene trait. Green and brown are dominant. So a white colored cat with blue eyes does not make it albino. That's not a "white man's lie," that's a fact.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:05 PM on 09/19/2009
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What? No tea-baggers, Birthers or Deathers?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 AM on 09/19/2009
- Hillrick I'm a Fan of Hillrick 130 fans permalink
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It's early in the weekend. They take smaller doses.

Btw I love your handle, I do too. I only wish she could have lived to hear our illustrious John Boehner state earlier this year "We have a pretty deep hole to dig ourselves out of."(speaking of the state of the g0p.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 AM on 09/19/2009
- ruffmama I'm a Fan of ruffmama 27 fans permalink
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I am not sure that some of these animals are actually albinos.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:11 PM on 09/18/2009
- mrpuddles I'm a Fan of mrpuddles 6 fans permalink

The white peacock is a white peacock, not an albino peacock. My partner and I raise peacocks, and have white ones. They are not albinos. I have white hair. That does not make me an albino.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:24 PM on 09/18/2009
- BankerTee I'm a Fan of BankerTee 6 fans permalink
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Please provide picture (and let's vote on it) to prove you aren't albino.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:32 AM on 09/19/2009
- mathme I'm a Fan of mathme 32 fans permalink
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See my post below. :)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:10 AM on 09/19/2009
- mathme I'm a Fan of mathme 32 fans permalink
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Yeah, some of these animals are leucistic, not albino.

Your white hairs have been split! ;)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:37 PM on 09/18/2009
- mathme I'm a Fan of mathme 32 fans permalink
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I think that some of these aren't albino,they're just white or lightly colored.

Never the less... very neat.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:34 PM on 09/18/2009
- Tunghoy I'm a Fan of Tunghoy 63 fans permalink
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I'm surprised there was no pic of a drunken, white rhinoceros. You know: an albino, wino rhino.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:32 PM on 09/18/2009
- wilray I'm a Fan of wilray 99 fans permalink
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Q. Crossed with an Elephant what would it be?
A. An albino, wino, Elephino

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:36 PM on 09/18/2009
- madtom I'm a Fan of madtom 40 fans permalink
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Chur lish, arb itrary, br aindead electronic masters are afoot again in the K ris tol thread.

WHY does HP continue to employ these pis sant id iots?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:16 PM on 09/18/2009
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Really cool. The alligator looks like raw chicken though.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:52 PM on 09/18/2009
- wilray I'm a Fan of wilray 99 fans permalink
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Taste like chicken too ... or so I've heard.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:40 AM on 09/19/2009
- benji85 I'm a Fan of benji85 8 fans permalink
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and fish too. either way alligator is good.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:13 AM on 09/20/2009
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I wonder if the albino animals think they are better than the other animals as we have seen with humans?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:02 PM on 09/18/2009
- madtom I'm a Fan of madtom 40 fans permalink
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Being albino -- as opposed to being White -- is not a mutation that serves animals well in the wild.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:48 PM on 09/18/2009
- Gretel1or2 I'm a Fan of Gretel1or2 154 fans permalink

That's true....I've seen albinos from most racial and ethnic background - Black, White and Hispanic. I have not personally seen an Asian albino, but I'm sure they exist.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 PM on 09/19/2009

Unfortunately for your ra cism, White Europeans are not albinos.

I know it hurts inside.

:D

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 AM on 09/19/2009
- madtom I'm a Fan of madtom 40 fans permalink
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This thread sure has brought out some low-IQ, thug-headed racists of the anti-White variety.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:58 PM on 09/19/2009
- DragonMama I'm a Fan of DragonMama 17 fans permalink
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Well, predators would find them an easier meal in the wild... animal coloration is a survival issue, they're usually supposed to blend in with their surroundings. So, no, I doubt they think they're "better", if the thought process would even enter their brains.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 PM on 09/19/2009
- PAposter I'm a Fan of PAposter 143 fans permalink
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I've seen an albino squirrel in my backyard...it was amazing!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 PM on 09/18/2009
- Hillrick I'm a Fan of Hillrick 130 fans permalink
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Here in Dayton there are white squirrels. Not albinos as they have black eyes. Descended from ones that kept by a girl from the Patterson family. If I remember correctly John Patterson was a founder of NCR and because of him the term You're fired! was born. He was a magnanimous fellow but could also be hotheaded and rash. If you offended him as much as you didn't do your job well, he would have your desk and things taken to out front and set fire to it. You'd come in and say "Where's my desk?" and people would say, you've been fired.
Anyway one of those squirrels took up in our neighborhood and just the other day I saw it had been hit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:07 AM on 09/19/2009
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I used to live in Dayton until recently and I've seen white squirrels there, too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:18 AM on 09/19/2009
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