Upon his arrival to Barcelona in November 1966, he was given an official reception by the then- mayor of Barcelona, Josep Maria de Porcioles, and called Blancanieves (" Snow White") in the newspaper Tele/Exprés. Snowflake received the recessive gene from both parents, causing his albinism. The same study revealed that his albinism was caused by a mutation of the SLC45A2 gene. Study of Snowflake's genome determined that his parents had 12% of their DNA in common, leading researchers to believe that his parents were uncle and niece. In diffuse light similar to that in its biotope, we calculated that it blinked on an average of 20 times a minute." The animal displayed marked photophobia, which caused it to close its eyes repeatedly when exposed to bright light. The choroidal vessels were perfectly visible and the pupil was normal. The media were transparent and the fundus of the eye normal and totally depigmented. Accommodation and refraction were normal. "The eye had a blueish sclera, a normal cornea, and a light blue iris which was very transparent to transillumination. Barcelona Zoo director Antonio Jonch wrote: He had poor vision, though tests to determine whether he had a central blind spot did not find one. Snowflake was a western lowland gorilla with non-syndromic oculocutaneous albinism. Originally named Nfumu Ngui in Fang language ("white gorilla") by his captor, he was then nicknamed Floquet de Neu ( Catalan for "little snowflake" ) by his keeper, Jordi Sabater Pi. Mañé then kept Snowflake at his home for four days before transporting him to Bata, where he was purchased by primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi.
Mañé had killed the rest of Snowflake's gorilla group (traditional in colour). Snowflake was captured in the Río Muni region in Spanish Guinea on 1 October 1966 by ethnic Fang farmer Benito Mañé. He was kept at Barcelona Zoo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, from 1966 until his death in 2003. 1964 – 24 November 2003) was a western lowland gorilla who was the world's only known albino gorilla to date. Snowflake ( Catalan: Floquet de Neu, Spanish: Copito de Nieve, French: Flocon de Neige c. Barcelona Zoo, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainīeing the world's only known albino gorilla
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