There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino ...

Snowflake the albino gorilla seen here when he was young. Snowflake was born in the wild and captured by villages in Equatorial Guinea in 1966. He lived most of his life at the Barcelona Zoo.

Snowflake the gorilla gained notoriety for being the only known albino of his species. Now the late ape is making headlines again over the recent postmortem discovery that he was inbred. Snowflake ...

The gorilla species, which is native to Central African rain forests, is critically endangered because of disease and poaching. You don’t have to travel overseas to see a western lowland gorilla.

A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in ...

June 20, 2013 Snowflake the gorilla gained notoriety for being the only known albino of his species. Now the late ape is making headlines again over the recent postmortem discovery that he was inbred.