Wildlife Sanctuary for Rare White Lion Musafa and Tawny Lioness Suraya

Summary: Donorship, petition and suit November 2018 for wildlife sanctuary with tawny lioness Suraya save rare white lion Mufasa from auction-block, canned hunts.

inseparables: lioness Suraya (left) and white lion Mufasa (right): Mufasa the White Lion @mufasawhitelion, via Facebook, Nov. 5, 2018

Announced and anonymous appreciation of animal rights against bodies and bones for ambush assassinations and anecdotal medicine acknowledges a safe wildlife sanctuary as the lifetime abode of the rare white lion Mufasa.

Liezl Thom of ABC News Nov. 21, 2018, broaches buy-outs for sanctuary safety of the rare white lion Mufasa and his buddy, the tawny lioness Suraya. Her article, Rare White Lion in South Africa Named Mufasa May Be Saved by 'Mystery Donor,' culls comments by Carel Zietsman, lawyer for an online petition. Zietsman declares, due to mystery donorship and 280,0000-plus petition signers, "We're hopeful that we'll be able to buy Mufasa and Soraya and relocate them somewhere safe."

Musafa and Suraya exhibit such bonding that "Our concern is for both of these lions and we're doing everything in our power to keep them together."

Six-year-old rare white lion Musafa (from Arabic مُصْطَفَى‎‎, muṣṭafā, "chosen"?) and three-year-long friend, six-year-old tawny lioness Suraya (from Arabic ثريا, Thurayya, "Pleiades"), face fortune or fright.

The South African national government gives no comment regarding North West Department of the Environment and provincial Department of Rural, Environmental and Agricultural Development ownership claims. The rare white lion Mufasa has a home in Rustenburg's Wild for Life rehabilitation center since 2015, when his pet owners held him without proper papers. A vasectomy inhibits the rare white lion Musafa investigating whether sexual interactions with the tawny lioness Suraya increase 13 wild and 300 captive white lions worldwide.

White lions juggle 25, 50 and 100 percent chances of white kittens from tawny lions with recessive genes, tawny lions without white-color genes and white lions.

The rare white lion Mufasa keeps the same recessive leucism (white-color variety) gene as white lions endemic to Kruger National Park and Timbavati Private Game Reserve.

Global White Lion Protection Trust founder Linda Tucker lodges seven of the world's white lions that Sepedi, Shangaan and Tsonga cultures laud before white-skinned witnesses, 1938-1992. Kruger's lion, mentioned scientifically as Leo leo krugeri in 1929 by Austin Roberts (Jan. 3, 1883-May 5, 1948), manifest blue-eyed white lions and red-eyed leonine albinos. Jason Turner of the 4,400-acre (1,780.62-hectare) Global White Lion Protection Trust along the Timbavati Private Game Reserve's Klaserie River nestles white lions within genetic coding changes.

White lions offer "the result of leucism, a rare change in the genetic coding that determines hair colour. The white lion gene is a recessive gene."

Mature white lions in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces possess rounded, tufted ears and 9.45-inch (240-millimeter) mane and 2.36- to 2.76-inch (60- to 70-millimeter) tail-tuft hair lengths.

Twelve-plus-year lifespans queue up 5.80- to 8.20-foot (1.70- to 2.50-meter) head-hull, 8.10- to 9.32-foot (2.47- to 2.84-meter) head-body, 3.28-foot (1-meter) tail lengths; 3.94-foot (1.20-meter) shoulder heights. Females realize 4.59- to 5.74-foot (1.40- to 1.75-meter) head-hull and 2.79-foot (85-centimeter) tail lengths; 3.28-foot (1-meter) shoulder heights; 330.69-pound (150-kilogram), versus male 496.04-pound (225-kilogram), average weights. Four-month gestations as sexually mature two- to three-year-olds secure four 52.91-ounce (1.5-kilogram), 19.69-inch (50-centimeter) kittens at 984.25- to 1,640.42-foot (300- to 500-meter) altitudes above sea level.

Dr. Tjitske Schouwstra thanks online fundraisers and petitioners since "If it hadn't been for the social media, Musafa's head would have been on somebody's wall already."

togetherness: white lion Mufasa (left) and lioness Suraya (right): Mufasa the White Lion @mufasawhitelion, via Facebook Nov. 17, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

inseparables: lioness Suraya (left) and white lion Mufasa (right): Mufasa the White Lion @mufasawhitelion, via Facebook, Nov. 5, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/mufasawhitelion/photos/a.2079862852286900/2159573417649176/

togetherness: white lion Mufasa (left) and lioness Suraya (right): Mufasa the White Lion @mufasawhitelion, via Facebook Nov. 17, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/mufasawhitelion/photos/a.2079862852286900/2165784930361358/

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Mufasa the White Lion @mufasawhitelion. 17 November 2018. "I have closed the campaign for legal costs for the court case for Mufasa and Soraya. Following the generous offer by our lawyer Carel Zietsman and other members of the legal team to donate the money towards the lion's immediate needs, it is only fair not to take any more donations for that campaign. . . . I thank you all for your support and will try to keep you updated as we go." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/mufasawhitelion/photos/a.2079862852286900/2165784930361358/

Paul Tully ‏@paul__tully. 14 November 2018. "MUFASA To give you an idea of the length of process in SouthAfrica, I photographed Musafa and his companion Suraya in 2016, over 2 years ago. Let's hope authorities see sense & allow these already abused lions, peace. Pls sign the petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/894/071/669/save-mufasa-the-white-lion/ … @rickygervais." Twitter.
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