White Tigers
White Tigers
2. White tigers are not a separate subspecies of tiger, and they are not albinos, they are just white-colored Bengal tigers.
3. White tigers are only born when two tigers that both carry the unusual gene for white coloring mate - their color is caused by a double recessive allele. A Bengal tiger with two normal alleles or one normal and one white allele is colored orange. Only a double dose of the mutant allele results in white tigers.
4. White tigers have blue eyes, pink noses, and creamy white fur with chocolate colored
stripes.
5. White tigers are not from Siberia!
6. Although some people think that white tigers come from Siberia where their white color helps camouflage them in the snow, this is not true - they come from India!
7. The only wild white tigers ever reported are white-colored Bengal tigers found in India.
8. In captivity, however there are some white tigers that are generics a mix of different subspecies.
9. White Bengal tigers are sometimes mated with tigers from other subspecies, producing white generic tigers.
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