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Description Baby White tiger from ZOO Bratislava, Slovakia


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I wonder why is white tiger white. That’s because it is albino, right?
White tigers are NOT albinos. Albinos would have red eyes. White colour of tigers is caused by recessive gen, whole genetic and colourful deviation is called leucism. White tigers usually have blue eyes and white fur with visible dark stripes.

White tigers are so wonderful! What a shame that this species is endangered in the wild
At first, white tiger is NOT a species at all!
In the wild, white tigers extremely RARELY occured amoung Bengal tigers.
But white tiger is NOT a separate species of tiger.

If white tigers are so rare, how comes that we can see them in so many animal parks?
In 1951, people managed to capture a white male cub of tiger. It was brought to captivity, where the male mated with normal orange female. People hoped to get white babies, but newborn cubs were orange. People then got and idea – and they let the white male mate with his OWN daughter. As a result, white babies were born. All white tigers in America and Europe have origin from this pair and their babies.

Er... origin from this pair and its babies?
Yes. To produce more white tigers, INBREEDING was needed. What does inbreeding mean? It means that mothers have babies with their sons or fathers have babies with their daugthers. Or siblings mate to produce more white cubs.
In fact, white tigers are DOMESTIC breed! They are closer to domestic CATS than to fantastic wild tigers. There are at least ELEVEN colour variants of white tigers – it reminds of breeding some budgies.

That’s sick, is not it? What about the result? What abouth health of white tigers?
Of course, inbreeding resulted in serious health damage of white tigers. Many of white tigers cubs are born dead or damaged. Cats have serious problems, for example with their spin. They are also cross-eyed, which is caused by white recessive gen itself. They are simply over crossed and bred poor creatures.

But inbreeding happens even in the wild, for example among lions!
Can you, please, tell me, which wild animal species has an origin in only ONE already inbred pair and then in one line of always inbred animals? In a healthy big population, single cases of inbreeding are not bad, but only inbreeding is.

But white tigers are still tigers after all! They surely need to be protected?
No. White tigers have NO value for protection of tigers.
Not only they are damaged. Not only they are domestic species. But to limit the results of inbreeding, animal facilities tried to mix blood of white tigers, letting them mate with another subspecies of tigers. Which means, that white tigers have no value for protection of tigers.
You need animals with pure blood for every conservation effort – pure blooded Amur tigers, pure blooded Malayan tigers, pure blooded Sumatran tigers. Some mixed, damaged, cross-eyed inbred white tiger has really NO value for protection of tigers.
In fact, their keeping is even more problematic – ZOOs keep them as an attraction instead of keeping and breeding REALLY endangered subspecies of tigers (Amur, Sumatran, Malayan), which really need protection. Those subspecies must be supported by ZOOs to have a chance to survive. Not white mutants.

Wait... why do ZOOs, even respected ones, keep white tigers then?
White tigers are good for marketing, as they are very attractive.
The question is not only black and white – white tigers attract the visitors and ZOOs can use money from entrance fees to breed and protect really endangered species of animals.
But American asociation of ZOOs has already banned breeding of new baby white tigers, hoping to remove this little “deviation“ from North American ZOOs in 20 years.
Nobody wants to shoot white tigers right now. They are living creatures and they deserve to live in the best living conditions. We should just stop breeding new ones.

Who the hell told you about this? What a crap!
Check the internet for info.
To provide real fact about white tigers, I contacted one of the most respected animal facilities in the world – ZOO Prague, which is very successful at breeding endangered species of animals, including tigers. This ZOO’s task was to control Europen population of white tigers in 2009. They were nice enough to send me valuable source of info.
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So... why do YOU post photos of white tigers then? What a hypocryte you are. You just want to have faves.
My photos of orange tigers are far more popular than photos of white tigers.
I also use my photos to INFORM people – and be sure that many of them were shocked when they learned about the origin of white tigers. Usually, people thank me for informing them, but of couse, some trolls who flame me for presenting those facts occur time to time.
Also... white tigers are nice – and they will probably disappear in few decades. Why should I deny their existence? It is good to use images of them to remeber their presence and to remember, how people in fact “created“ them, letting them suffer for their beauty.



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Comments: 90

woxys In reply to ??? [2017-09-16 19:33:56 +0000 UTC]

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icemanforever In reply to woxys [2017-09-18 08:47:44 +0000 UTC]

 

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RaspberryDuckling [2017-06-16 03:45:53 +0000 UTC]

ahhh les petit tigres est très mignonne! J'adore ça!

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JessicaPlummer [2012-07-23 21:51:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for not just your beautiful photography, but for posting so much information on the sad history of white tigers. I keep forgetting how much of this stuff, unfortunately, not common knowledge (and should be). Not to mention, I know it can seem harmless to comment on a tiger cub image professing how badly you want one, but I can't help but hear after every one of those comments how in the US alone, we have more tigers in captivity than there are existing in the wild. Rescue centers and habitats are taxed yearly with the loads of unwanted large cats from those who thought they would make good pets (or from zoos who can't financially keep their animals any longer), many of them just dumped on a highway or seized by authorities. If everyone here love these guys, think of visiting and donating to rescue facilities instead of zoos .

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woxys In reply to JessicaPlummer [2012-07-24 19:46:53 +0000 UTC]

thanks for appreciation and tips

fortunately, situation in my country is different

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SilentAqua [2012-05-16 02:47:39 +0000 UTC]

I love white tigers... SO. ADORABLE.

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Zachmacf [2012-05-11 16:33:15 +0000 UTC]

I think it should also be noted that the white fur really sticks out compared to orange fur. It makes hunting for them difficult, so they wouldn't stand as much of a chance it the wild.

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weaveroffantasy [2012-05-11 04:23:04 +0000 UTC]

I never knew any of that about white tigers and I'm a little outraged and morose about those poor tigers! It doens't seem fair to treat animals like that, even in a zoo. These guys are so cute and seem so playful...I appreciate everything you posted on this...

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LittleBlueDevil99 [2012-05-10 20:16:39 +0000 UTC]

aww, cute!

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DreamingRay [2012-05-09 20:17:47 +0000 UTC]

i want one....

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PinkMelodii In reply to DreamingRay [2012-10-14 01:57:46 +0000 UTC]

Did you even read the description?

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Subarufoxboy [2012-05-09 19:04:17 +0000 UTC]

Aren't they just cute ^_^?

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PinkMelodii In reply to Subarufoxboy [2012-10-14 01:57:41 +0000 UTC]

Did you even read the description?

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Subarufoxboy In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-15 19:34:50 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I see.

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PinkMelodii In reply to Subarufoxboy [2012-10-15 21:41:30 +0000 UTC]

Oh, sorry if I was rude.

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Subarufoxboy In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-16 19:40:33 +0000 UTC]

OK

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ANIMEDISNEY15 [2012-05-08 21:52:08 +0000 UTC]

Awwwwww, God I'm a sucker for cute babies!!

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PinkMelodii In reply to ANIMEDISNEY15 [2012-10-14 01:57:36 +0000 UTC]

Did you even read the description?

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ANIMEDISNEY15 In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-14 03:32:06 +0000 UTC]

Excuse me?

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PinkMelodii In reply to ANIMEDISNEY15 [2012-10-14 14:08:02 +0000 UTC]

80% of white bengal tigers are killed at birth if the don't have the right look, and the ones that do grow up are forced to breed with their parents, brothers, or sisters. They live short, cruel lives with no chance of being released into the wild, since zoos use them simply for profit and sensationalism for attracting guests to their zoo. All they've done is to cause the original bengal tiger the're inbred from to become endangered since orange cubs that were bred to be white are killed at birth.

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ANIMEDISNEY15 In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-14 15:52:11 +0000 UTC]

Uhh.....0_o
I'm......sorry?

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PinkMelodii In reply to ANIMEDISNEY15 [2012-10-15 02:33:52 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I was acting a little crazy when I commented, you might just want to ignore me for the most part.

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ANIMEDISNEY15 In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-15 03:49:49 +0000 UTC]

O.....kay 0-o

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DreamingRay In reply to PinkMelodii [2012-10-14 14:59:32 +0000 UTC]

do you just like to tackle people saying "Did you even read the description"

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PinkMelodii In reply to DreamingRay [2012-10-14 15:08:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh, well, I did on there because there were a bunch of people who thought they were really great, but I was just acting a little crazy last night, you can ignore me.

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DrGeri [2012-05-08 19:48:54 +0000 UTC]

You should submit this photo to Cute Overload!

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PinkMelodii In reply to DrGeri [2012-10-14 01:57:30 +0000 UTC]

Did you even read the description?

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FaelysWorld [2012-05-08 18:34:09 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the information; also, he just wants to have a taste ^^ !

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RyuLuster [2012-05-08 18:28:00 +0000 UTC]

What a beautifull picture indeed, so young and innocent, yet bearing the sin of man.

What I liked most about this deviation is your information, and in particular the last Q&A, I'm not shocked though, just enlightend, and I thank you for that!

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GeorgetteGraham [2012-05-08 17:30:29 +0000 UTC]

What a beautiful picture!

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fletcher1405 [2012-05-08 17:03:52 +0000 UTC]

OMFG THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE XXXX

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Firey-Fox [2012-05-08 16:59:58 +0000 UTC]

ITS SO CUUUTE

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TheBattenburg [2012-05-08 16:55:19 +0000 UTC]

This is adorable, but also thank you for putting all that info in the description! I feel that people need to be more aware of this, when people go to see white tigers at a zoo. I'm glad to hear breeding them has been banned in the US .

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blacky91 [2012-05-08 16:46:47 +0000 UTC]

Awww they are really adorable... i wish I could have some at home ^-^

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Imaginary-Whispers [2012-05-08 16:19:54 +0000 UTC]

OMG they are so cute!!!!!

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cockroachpie [2012-05-08 16:15:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the info, it was instructive, I didn't know that. I love tigers and animals in general but if their lifes mean bad health for them, it's better them not exist, only if humans aren't involved in their born.

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Loki7z [2012-05-08 16:04:54 +0000 UTC]

Very nice!

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Finf [2012-05-08 15:43:51 +0000 UTC]

Poor things, I thought it was just a mutation in a gene, not inbreeding. It's sad that they have to suffer like that, though I still think they have value because they're a living creature afterall.

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littlevillagewolf [2012-05-08 15:32:53 +0000 UTC]

we have white tigers in our zoo too

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LonelyElementalKitsu [2012-05-08 15:21:20 +0000 UTC]

I knew they were a recessive gene, but I didn't know they were so badly inbred.
You have amazing pictures and the information included is good to see.
This image is ADORABLE! (And that has nothing to do with them being white coat and everything to do with them being cubs.)

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Twilights-Violinist [2012-05-08 15:07:00 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful shot! I've always loved white tigers!

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White--Swallow [2012-05-08 14:28:51 +0000 UTC]

too cute <3

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LunarWillow [2012-05-08 12:26:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow I had no idea the origin of the white tiger. Thank for the info! I love the info about the animals you post with your pictures.

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jonish84 [2012-05-08 11:59:58 +0000 UTC]

why not try to put them down

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CorusTenebrae [2012-05-08 07:35:23 +0000 UTC]

dawww,cutez cx

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PostWaveCore [2012-05-08 05:43:46 +0000 UTC]

Just off camera a pair of Las Vegas moguls are throwing wads of money at every animal they see.

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dagonrs [2012-05-08 04:35:10 +0000 UTC]

wonderful shot, these kittens are so cute! ^^

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AlphaLunaWhiteWolf [2012-05-08 03:50:06 +0000 UTC]

So cute! My mom is going to love this picture ^^

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Paraetta [2012-05-08 03:16:02 +0000 UTC]

Awwww, they're so gorgeous. Beautiful shots as always

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ManamiMarisa-chan [2012-05-08 02:55:50 +0000 UTC]

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

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