White Tigers- What the Zoos Don´t Tell You

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Across the world, especially in the United States, a massive deception about white tigers and their origin is taking place.

Did you know that there truly is no such thing as a royal white Bengal tiger in captivity?

Did you know that there isn´t even a wild white tiger population, and that no white tiger has even been seen since the 1950s?

Did you know that there isn´t even a conservational value for breeding white tigers, nor that any are able to participate in any Species Survival Plans?

And finally, did you know that white tigers can only exist through rampant inbreeding, which causes heavy deformities, mental disabilities, and birth defects?

Most people don´t know these things. This is mainly because the zoos just don´t want the public to know. White tigers are the animal that everyone wants to see. When sold, they cost much more than a normal orange colored tiger. They are seen as more valuable because the public has naively believed the lies spread by countless zoos around the world.

White tigers are all related to Mohan, a white tiger cub that was captured in India in the 1950s. He was bred to a Siberian tiger (they hoped that the resulting cubs would be bigger due to the Siberian tiger´s greater size) in the hopes of producing more white tigers.

When all the cubs were orange, they were baffled. But, as they soon discovered, by breeding Mohan with his own daughter, some white tigers resulted. The inbreeding turned out to be necessary because the rarity of the gene that causes the white coloration, and because the gene is double recessive. From then on, all white tigers have been a result of such inbreeding.

Since the first breeding occurred between a Bengal and Siberian tiger, all subsequent animals were tiger hybrids. Because they were not pure species, no white tiger or orange tiger from that line will ever be able to be used in Species Survival Programs. Only pure subspecies can be used for that. Therefore, when zoos say they breed white tigers for conservation, they are trying to deceive the public. AZA accredited zoos typically frown upon the practice of breeding white tigers for this very reason.

With inbreeding comes many problems. The neonatal mortality rate for these animals is 80%. That means 80% of these tigers will die of birth defects. All other white tigers will have crossed eyes, whether it shows or not, because the white gene causes the optic nerve to be wired on the wrong side of the brain. The majority that survives suffer from profound defects and problems, such as immune deficiency, scoliosis, cleft palates, mental impairments, deformities, etc. The list could go on. So many of these animals suffer from deformities that it is estimated that only 1 in 30 white tigers will be put on display. The rest are sold off, either to another roadside zoo or placed in the exotic pet trade, or are killed. Zoos have no interest in animals they deem ugly.

This is the abuse that you are supporting every time you pay patronage to a zoo that has white tigers. This means that you must boycott such zoos and spread the word about this despicable practice. Contact any zoos you know of with white tigers and urge them to get their animals fixed. This is something that we can stop! We need to get our voices heard by the places that continue to breed these animals. When they realize the public isn´t falling for their tricks, they´ll realize that they have to stop the abuse in order to earn money.

When the people stop paying, maybe the killing and abuse can stop too.

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[Tammy2sassy]

It seems that their logic is that they 'seem' to believe breeding that allows a recessive trait to express itself is akin to breeding a deformity. Thats like saying human 'AB' blood type, if rare in most of the world is a deformity in those countries where it's expression becomes more dominant in a given population. 

[bbsplitter92]

sooo... the double recessive trait occurs in nature anyways... but yet its inhuman to cross breed on occasion as big cats normally do in the wild... in order to get a tiger coloration that occurs naturally in the wild... im not seeing the logic here.

[windydays201]

@HauntedChronicles umm no its not and that's not how genes work, in humans having black hair means you have the black hair dominant gene, but in your deformed logic that means that when ever two people have black hair will have an offspring with different color variation? even if they are carriers it is severely unlikely, NO RESPECTABLE ZOO breeds in such a way since they dedicate themselves to the conservation of animals not to make exotic degenerate ones

[HauntedChronicles]

My brother works at Grassmere in Nashville. While yes, they do horrible things to the unwanted white tigers, don't completely be upset with zoos if they keep the pretty ones. The "pretty" ones who are deemed prefect for show, are actually being researched to find what genes are make the "white gene" and then try to breed with dominate genes. (I think 2 recessive genes make one dominate gene, right? lol) So yeah. Part of it is really horrible. But it's to benefit for something better.

[Tammy2sassy]

A ressessive gene means that color morph is there just as in many other animals, as is the means for ablino animal colorations. Deformities can be caused by poor nutrition as well as or in combination with inbreeding. The crossed eyed trait is common to white tigers yet does not usually occur in white tigers native to India. When cross eyed tigers give birth to the more common orange and black color morph, those young do not exhibit cross eyed-ness. perhaps some of your information is outdated.

[Tammy2sassy]

There is a population of white tigers in the wild, the Siberian white tiger, dwindling yet still exist. "Google them". Ressive gene or not we have a responcibility to preserve & save Tigers & all wildlife '. Stop inbreeding YES. Man's best freind (dogs) are so inbred they barely resemble their wild counterparts nor would they survive the wild. It's our responcibility to care for what such inbreeding has caused. It's up to us to preserve all animals, they have a right to live, inbred or not.

[TheMonkeyboy4life]

wtf? thats wrong i thought they were not hybred

[tomandniki]

that's cruel

[iheartmyshoes88]

@xXWondrouSXx Who would be happy to be human, when i think of human's i think war,violence,terrorism,hate crimes,cruelty. There are an higher intelligence on the food chain. I believe I'm part of that higher intelligence and we shall rise up.

[shootingmen]

omg , i rather not see white tigers than let them suffer