Albino\u2019s death<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAlbino resided in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years before his death on November 24, 2003. Albino died due to skin cancer, a complication of his delicate skin’s sensitivity to the sun caused by his albinism. With optimal veterinary care, he battleThere are many creatures and species present on this earth and most are rarely seen. In such a situation, if these creatures suddenly appear in front of our eyes, we might be unable to tell their names. d the disease for 2 years before cancer overran his immune system. Barcelona and the world were devastated to lose the only albino gorilla to ever have been found. Remarkably enough, the albino lived to be about the average lifespan of a gorilla species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snowflake was the world’s only albino gorilla. Albinism is a medical condition where an animal cannot produce skin pigment. His most of life was spent at the Barcelona Zoo, among other gorillas but he was only white among them. By studying the blood of the Albino gorilla, it was found that his albinism was likely caused by inbreeding. The recessive gene would not be dominantly displayed unless there were a pair in each parent. Albino died in 2003 due to skin cancer, a complication of his albinism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Image Credit Pinterest Have you ever seen or heard about the Snowflake gorilla? Such a creature that you have probably never seen before. This snowflake gorilla was brought to Barcelona Zoo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1966 and he died in 2003. He was a male Western lowland gorilla. At that time, only the influential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9011,"featured_media":82466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21720],"tags":[67630,67632,67631,67622,67628,67626,67633,67623,67620,67624,67625,67627,67629],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}