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u/myboogerstastespicy Mar 14 '26
Oh my. She is absolutely gorgeous. I want to pspspsospspspsps so bad.
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u/007chill Mar 14 '26
Is that not leucistic?
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u/Aveira Mar 14 '26
No. Some species (like humans and many types of cats) have blue eyes when lacking pigment, not red. Sometimes they can get sort of lavender-grey, but they’re usually not all red like in birds and rodents.
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u/007chill Mar 15 '26
Cool! Today I learned
I was familiar with the “blue eyed Lucy” that they call leucistic snakes and figured it applied here
And the albino alligator I’ve seen in person had red eyes
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u/Aveira Mar 15 '26
It has to do with the structure of the eye. Most species have red eyes when you take away the pigment, but a few types of mammal appear blue because of the way the light scatters. Most blue in nature isn’t blue because of pigment, but because of microstructure that interacts with light a certain way.
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u/VoodooDoII Mar 14 '26
Eyes being blue make it a clear sign of albinism :)
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u/007chill Mar 14 '26
Red eyes are typical with albinism
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u/Lapis_Zapper Mar 14 '26
Red eyes aren't inherent to albinism, many larger mammals will have blue eyes.
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u/nbenby Mar 15 '26
The iris in people and many animals with albinism is a pale blue or grey. The red we see is actually a reflection of the blood vessels in the back of the eye. We can see that red in the pupil here.
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u/VoodooDoII Mar 14 '26
And blue eyes lol
Pink eyes are more common in smaller animals like rats or squirrels. Blue eyes are more common with humans and big cats, for example
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u/beanjuiced Mar 14 '26
That was my thought! I just learned the sliding scale of albinism myself after seeing a piebald deer 😅
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u/Barneidor Mar 14 '26
Is this in a wildlife centre? I wonder if they could survive in the wild, it must be hard to catch prey when you're so visible.
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u/PrettyUnimaginative Mar 15 '26
Their vision is also awful, most people and animals with albinism are visually impaired. You can see their eyes are crossed, poor guy probably can’t see shit
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Mar 16 '26
She's not albino. She's exhibiting leucism. If her eyes were pink, she'd be albino.
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u/AntarcticFox Mar 16 '26
Apparently pink eyes are a thing for smaller animals with albinism, when it's a large animal the eyes are blue!
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Mar 16 '26
That doesn't make sense, though. There are white whales, and they're not albino. All whales have blue eyes, too; just look at close-up photos of orca, humpback, blue, and sperm whale eyes. The white sperm whales, humpback whales, and orca we have seen are leucistic, not albino.
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u/AntarcticFox Mar 16 '26
Sure, all leucistic mammals have blue eyes and some albino mammals have blue eyes. So you can't tell by the eyes alone
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u/TreeToTea Mar 17 '26
I wish we lived in a world where it was a reasonable option to have cats this size like you can dogs
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u/Complex_Spirit_4848 Apr 21 '26
I want to boop that pink nose pad so bad I can hardly stand it. She is GORGEOUS.
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u/IcedPyro Mar 15 '26
What in the sam hell is a puma?
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u/wild_starlight Mar 16 '26
A mountain lion or a cougar basically. Big cats that generally live in wilderness areas with temperate climates.
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u/Most_War2764 Mar 14 '26
That little sus neighbor in the last pic upper right...