Will we ever post about things that aren’t fuzzy again??

Probably not.

I’ve been primed to love white lions ever since getting hooked on Osamu
Tezuka’s "Kimba the White Lion" manga series (which I’m convinced Disney soooooo ripped off in The Lion King. More here). 

So when I was recently confronted with the adorable sight of four white lion cubs recently born to the Jurques Zoological Park in France, I was immediately incapacitated.

These pale puffs aren’t albinos. Instead they carry the recessive "chinchilla mutation" that only crops up when both parents carry it. This means that when zoos deliberately try and breed white lions, they face the danger of falling into the pit of an inbreeding depression - which is what happened with white tigers. Still, this marshmallow of a creature might persist only in captivity. Wild white lions were first recorded in 1928 but the mutation that causes their blanching seems to have been lost in the wild since.