At Okinawa zoo, white lions Seramu and Rhythm take their love story to the next level
White lions Seramu (right) and Rhythm spend time together. (Photo courtesy of Okinawa Zoo & Museum)
November 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
White lions Seramu (4-year-old male) and Rhythm (3-year-old female) are spending more time together with the goal of breeding at the Okinawa Zoo & Museum (Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni) in Okinawa City. Visitors can watch the couple hang out in the exhibition area. It is the first time in about 20 years that a pair of lions have been joined together for breeding. If they succeed at breeding, it will be the first time in over 35 years.
On February 2, the zoo removed the steel partition between Seramu and Rhythm’s rooms, allowing the pair to see each other through a fence. In March, the two lions began sharing a sleeping chamber for an hour without quarrel. In May, the pair spent an hour and a half in the exhibition area together for the first time. They have been in the exhibition area every day since last September, although their sleeping chambers are still separated.
The white lion’s characteristic body fur is deficient in the pigmentation of a typical lion’s yellowish-brown color. Seramu and Rhythm both arrived from Tohoku Safari Park in Fukushima Prefecture in 2017 and 2007, respectively.
(English translation by T&CT and Monica Shingaki)
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