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Vision aside, albinos are generally as healthy as the rest of their species, with growth and development occurring as normal.
While an albino may suffer from a standard eye affliction (astigmatism, near-sightedness, etc), the general problem arises from a poorly-developed retina and abnormal nerve connections between the eyes and brain.
Although surgery is possible on the ocular muscles, effectively simulating (to a limited degree) the improvements in the albino's vision that often come with age, the gain is generally thought to be out-weighed by the trauma.
For it is to be expected a priori that, since albinoes were derived from pigmented progenitors and may at any time appear, side by side with pigmented brothers, in a litter from pigmented parents, they would be carrying the pattern determinants of some one or other of their pigmented ancestors.
But W. Haacke has described a single albino rat, in which he states that the hairs of the shoulder and mid-dorsal regions were of a different texture from those of the rest of the body.
He was able by appropriate experiments to demonstrate that when an albino is derived (extracted) from a colored ancestry, and is then crossed with a colored individual, both the color of the pigmented parent and of the pigmented ancestry of the albino may appear among the individuals of the offspring.
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