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the truth behind white tigers.

reina__reina__
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
Uh, yeah. I was on Yahoo! and the "most popular pictures" had a white tiger cub being fed milk in a bottle on it. So cute, but I wish/hope most people know the truth behind white tigers.. but I sure didn't know until I did a study on them in grade 12. <br><br>White Tigers are not a species. They are severely inbred orange tigers. Period. They rarely EVER (if not never) occur in the wild, because tigers don't inbreed over successive generations because they aren't pack animals like the lion. Even then, the older males leave when young ones from other packs come in.<br><br>Zoos breed the white tigers (bad zoos). 95% of all tigers born out of mother x son, father x daughter, sister x brother breedings are physically and mentally deformed. No joke. That means 40-60 cats have to be killed every year in order to get ONE normal-looking white tiger cub. Even then, it may not be mentally stable. <br><br>Isn't that horrible? Yuck. <br><br><a href="http://www.greendiary.com/images/white_tiger_suffering_from_inbreeding-linked_birth_defect.jpg"; target="_blank" class="bb-url">http://www.greendiary.com/images/white_ ... defect.jpg</a><br><br>That is not out of the ordinary, but actually, is what happens most often.<br><br>Inbreeding within a controlled breeding program, like with dogs, is not really a bad thing. Inbreeding over successive generations is the bad thing. Breeding father to daughter, mother to son, etc, just brings up *what's really in the bloodline* to the surface, which can then be taken out or softened by outcrossing. If *what's really in the bloodline* is neither softened or taken out and is double, trip, quadruple bred over, deformities happen.<br><br>Arrgggh it just makes me so mad. :( Just wanted to let everyone know.
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  • SylverWyndIVSylverWyndIV
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    Yuck, poor Tiger.<br>Inbreeding is horrible I agree.
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  • SilversketchesSilversketches
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    Yeah, I knew about that, we watched a vide about the white tiger gene in Science class two years ago, I think? Anyways, I totally agree, it's ridiculous and stupid that some zoos and most 'backyard zoos' breed mothers to sons, etc etc. Tigers are my favourite big cat, and I hate to see them suffer like that because of birth defects and the like.<br><br>D:
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