There is no such species as the Royal White Bengal Tiger. The name was invented in 1980 to attract people to a nightclub act in Las Vegas. There are no white tigers in the wild; all the whites in this country are the product of 60 years of inbreeding. Because of the inbreeding, over 50% of white tigers die as cubs, and those who survive suffer from physical defects. Tigers in America has rescued or relocated 12 white tigers to true sanctuaries. Contact us directly and we will tell you where they are.
History
In 1951 a white tiger cub was captured in India after his mother and three orange siblings were killed. He was given to the Maharajah of Rewa who named him Mohan and began a breeding program to create more white tigers. In 1958 Mohan was bred to one of his daughters and the first litter of white tigers was born in captivity. Mohini, a product of subsequent breeding, was bought by an American businessman from the Maharajah and given to the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
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High-profile TV coverage of tigers in captivity may give the impression that breeding tigers in captivity is the only way to save the species. But that’s far from true.
Globally, there are some legitimate conservation breeding programmes for tigers, and where appropriately managed they could be used to re-establish wild populations in the future. However, there are estimated to be over 8,000 tigers in captive tiger facilities across China, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam and over 5,000 in the US, with most providing absolutely no conservation benefit whatsoever to the world’s remaining 3,900 wild tigers. Often misinformation promoted by facilities about captive and white tigers’ benefit to conservation misleads the public to further the profits brought in by these facilities.
Leigh Henry, Director of Wildlife Policy at WWF-US, shares four reasons why the promotion of “endangered” white tigers, as just one example, is a ploy of facilities to profit from captive tigers while providing no benefit to wild tiger conservation...
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White tiger
Tiger morph
For other uses, see White tiger (disambiguation).
The white tiger (ashy tiger) is a leucisticmorph of the tiger, typically the Bengal tiger. It is occasionally reported in the Indian wilderness. It has the typical black stripes of a tiger, but its coat is otherwise white or near-white, and it has blue eyes.
Variation
White tigers have been recorded in India since 16th century CE. The first white tiger was captured in 1915. A white tiger named Mohan was captured by the king of Rewa, Martand Singh, in 1951 from the forest of Sidhi district, which is now part of the Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve. White tigers found in zoos around the world are the offspring of Mohan.[1][2][3][4] White Bengal tigers are distinctive due to the color of their fur. The white fur is caused by a lack of the pigment pheomelanin, which is found in Bengal tigers with orange color fur. When compared to orange Bengal tigers, the white Bengal tigers tend to grow faster and become heavier than the orange Bengal tiger.[citat