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(11-11-2021, 10:08 PM)Gijima Wrote: I also don't think it's wiped out from the Giraffe Pride if the females were able to raise daughters to adulthood. They gene would be passed down from generation to generation on the females' side and it would just stay dormant.
I think if one parent carry white gene and the other do not, there is only 50% that the gene will be passed further and that is why I am not sure the gene still exist in Giraffe pride.
(11-11-2021, 10:08 PM)Gijima Wrote: I think for sure the BDM, YBM or any of those lions could carry the gene.
They definitelly can carry, but there are also chances they do not carry it. That is why it is impossible to predict which individuals carry it and which don't.
If the genes got pushed out of the pride I don't see it as a bad thing. There were too many white lions in the Timbavati at one point when implies that there might have been a bit too much inbreeding... so now the genes are more spread out which is a good thing and hopefully being spread further away as lions leave the reserve.