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Wade, I tried googling "partial albinos" and I found a whole gallery of photographs of them. There is a picture of a chipmunk with an albino head and a normal coloured body and also many pictures of people exhibiting partial albinism. Maybe these are chimeras. Sincerely Paul
Wade, I can't find where I left you a message asking whether you have ever seen a picture of a three horned rhinoceros. I'll write down where I leave messages from now on. By the way that picure you posted a while back of a lady riding an Indian rhinoceros at the London Zoo was of Armand Denis or his wife. I forget which is which. It was on the cover of their book about filming wildlife in east Africa which I saw in a second hand store. Sincerely Paul
Wade, I was just looking again at the gallery of photographs which came up when I googled "partial albinism" and it includes one of those white alligators and also several pictures of African children exhibiting partial albinism. Sincerely Paul
Paul,
I am still not convinced. You are either albino or you are not. Albinism is pretty unique. I don't think it is anything more then leucism which we have discussed. Is a pinto horse "half/partial" albino? A pie bald, an appaloosa, a dalmatian dog? Is a white German Shepard albino, while a black and silver is not?
I believe Snowflakes grandson isn't an "albino" even if his finger tips are pink, but he carries the genes for albinism because we know who/what his grandfather was.
In referencing a study involving Dr. Theodore Reed, and who ever collaborated, you are referencing an awful dated study. Much of it may have been speculation given Reed was associated with white tigers which were thought to be "albinos" in the early days, similar to a nit wit using the easy catch all term inbred, because they are not familiar with the correct term of line bred. There are some who still insist on calling a Champagne lion a white lion, even when it has been proven that they are not.
Wade
Wade, I was thinking that Pinky the albino chimpanzee must have fallen into this same category since she had one brown eye and one blue and dark hair on some parts of her body and white hair covering others. There's a word for this and I was mistaken in calling it co-dominance. It might be incomplete dominance. There's somebody I can ask. Also Mary Ann has that magazine article so she can tell us what breed of cattle that is. Anyway what ever you want to call it, I don't want to argue about semantics, did you check out the photo of the chipmunk which has a white head with pink eyes and a normal coloured body and the other pictures? Sincerely Paul I only have four minutes left.
Paul,
Overo pinto's and pie balds will often have one white, blue, or on rare occasions pink eye and one normal colored eye. It is where the term "glass eye" came from. Occasionally both eyes will be white or blue. I have never seen a pinto/paint with two pink eyes, but I assume it has occurred.
Wade
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