White Panther - White Cougar

White Cougar

A white cougar has been photographed and was not albino but leucistic (white, but with pigmented skin and pigmented eyes). There are reports that a white cougar is displayed at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, England, being the same white cougar that London Zoo bought from the animal dealer Jamrach and which lived at London Zoo from May 1848 until January 1852. In reality, however, as confirmed in December 2011 by cryptozoologists Karl Shuker and Loren Coleman, the specimen in question is not a cougar at all but is instead the above-pictured albino leopard, which is clearly labelled as such, and, as revealed by the museum's staff, was derived from Asia. Also, its leopard rosettes are readily visible. A white cougar was reported several times in 2001 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and was identified from photographs and reports as an albino cougar. There is also a calico (white speckling) specimen currently on display as of July 2009 in La Bourbansais Zoo, France. A white puma was born in October 2011 at the Attica Zoological Park in Greece.