Comments on: When God Runs out of Paint: 26 Albino Animals

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:32:52 +0000

We have a White Alligator at our Audubon Zoo here in New Orleans and he’s not Albino. Half of the animals on here aren’t albino and the easiest way you can tell is because albino’s have red eyes. LostAnimal is right

oh and Lobie….most reptiles do that

By: LostAnimal

LostAnimal — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:00:55 +0000

Just because an animal is colored white doesn’t always mean that it is an albino. The rare white peacock is frequently mistaken for an albino when it is in fact a variety of the Spalding Peafowl.

Same with the white lion and white tiger, their are not albinos; they have a different condition known as leucism, a reduction (not a lack) in all types of skin pigment, not just melanin.

By: lobie

lobie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:23:41 +0000

oh also, most albinos are most certainly not, “as healthy as the rest of their species with normal growth and development as well as capability of reproduction.” due to the lack of pigment in their eyes, many albinos are highly sensitive to light and cannot see well if at all. also being bright white they are easy targets for predators. and for many, if the predators don’t get them, sunburn will.

By: lobie

lobie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:18:00 +0000

#3 is definitely an alligator. not just that, but that specific alligator is claude, who lives at the academy of sciences in san francisco. i worked next to that boring animal for over a year. all he does is hit his face on the plexiglass and lay in his own poop. serious, that alligator lays some massive smelly turds that he apparently doesnt even care if his face is in it.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:29:05 +0000

There is no god.

Get over it. Evolve.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:25:08 +0000

Haflo, I agree that it may not be an albino horse, but you can’t say that there has NEVER been an albino horse ever… ever ever.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:20:36 +0000

no humans? how about making it 27 and adding a human to the list.

By: Haflo

Haflo — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:05:53 +0000

Albino horses do not exist, this horse is a perlino (and might be a cremello, but I’m sure it’s a perlino)
No albino horse has ever been born into this world as of today.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:25 +0000

That’s an alligator, not a crocodile.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:11:12 +0000

Probably not blind but they can have vision trouble. And color blind is a different gene that effects the rods and cones (I don’t remember which one) of the eyes… Just because they have no pigment doesn’t mean color blindness is part of it. The albino peacock is amazing!