By the time they have reached two years of age, they don’t need their mothers to look after them anymore. Two adorable white lion cubs have been captured cuddling, tackling trainers and playing in the sunshine - in a candid look at the young lives of the incredibly rare cats. They grow small ones when still very young, which are then replaced with adult teeth as they get older.Īt six to seven months old, cubs stop drinking milk altogether. Like humans, lions are born without teeth. At around two to three months, they begin to eat meat as well with their small milk teeth. It is good for them and helps them to grow quickly. Young cubs drink milk from their mother’s teats. If there is not enough food around to feed a hungry mouth, a lioness will wait until there is before giving birth.

United States became the first country while Myrtle Beach Safari at the state of South Carolina became the first ever animal safari park to successfully breed the white. Lionesses can also control when they have cubs. The world’s first white liger cubs were born in December 2013, when a male white lion successfully mated with a female white tigress to produce the white ligers as offsprings.

This helps to keep them safe from predators – meat-eating animals, such as other lions and tigers – and also large animals such as elephant and buffalo. They look after them in a group, known as a ‘crèche’. The five-day-old cubs, a male named Simba and a female named Lira, were born to two common African lions so. Lionesses in a pride often have cubs around the same time as each other. A pair of rare white lion cubs have been born at a nature reserve in southern Spain.

White lion cubs