“The owners of the two lions wanted to sell them to a circus,” explained Caresse de Tigre owner Klimonde Brigitte. That made the owners of the cat sanctuary in France especially delighted when they realized that both an adult male and an adult female were set to be bought by a shady circus. They aren’t quite as snowy as albino lions, but they stand out for their startling looks just the same. The condition isn’t impossible to find, but it’s certainly not common. Although their fur is technically a “light brown” color instead of truly white, these cats boast a genetic mutation similar to blue eyes in the human population. Native to South Africa, these unique felines are absolutely stunning to look at. The two white lion cubs, named Nala and Simba, were born at the end of July 2019. It’s tough to know exactly how many of these gorgeous lions truly still exist, though there were just 11 left in the wild as of 2018, and it’s difficult to get accurate numbers to estimate how many are in captivity when illegal breeders and circus owners try to fly under the radar. The pair aren’t just regular lions, but white lions-and with their kind listed as vulnerable on the endangered species list, Simba and Nala might be two of barely 300 of their kind left around the world. At the Caresse de Tigre sanctuary in the northwest of France, the birth of a pair of baby white lions-adorably dubbed Simba and Nala-marked a happy outcome after a pair of adult lions was rescued from a circus and kept out of a potentially heartbreaking situation.
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