White, Black & Golden Tigers

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(07-10-2014, 10:09 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: Shouldn't we look at white tigers surviving in the wild the same way we would look at the claim of a 400kg cat?
I know these are valid reports, but to my knowledge the only confirmed white tiger was Mohan, I am not saying these other cats didn't exist, but I would really love to see any images of them. Especially if they reportedly already exist.
I just think we should be as thorough as possible, we've debunked quite a few popular ideas already by being that way.

Gaute- on your point about white bengals in india being 100% pure compared to N. American White tigers.
They are still inbred. They still come from the only white tiger ever known in captivity, then his cubs where used because you need two cats with the same white gene, and so on it went. All white tigers in captivity are inbred and will never be pure. Any tiger they have ever mated with and had cubs with will be the same. I would venture to bet that even regular colored cubs that come from white tigress' still have deformities more often than wild tigers.

Also, when did you hear that Varty was using his cats for canned hunts?
He always preaches against it and documents his cats throughout their life.

 

No, these are two different things. The 400 kg cats are exaggerations that born from the hunger of big game. On the other hand, the white tigers are more like a "magical" animal that very few people had saw, but that EXIST in reality.

There is an old picture of Mugals hunting tigers and in it we can see two white tigers. However, other experts doubt that these are true white tigers, but that depend on the interpretation.

There are a few reliable reports of white tigers in the wild. The female with cubs filmed by Jim Corbett is the best from my point of view. But there are others accounts, like a white tiger hunted in its early life. This was reported by Peter and he put the image, I am going to search it for you. So, there is no true evidence to say that white tigers are freak monsters created by man. In fact, the studies that I have showed before are evidence that there is no need of inbreeding to create this tiger type. The inbreeding method born from the ignorance of man, only that.

I have never denied the fact that all white tiger populations are highly inbreed, however this is not excuses to say that they are not pure. In fact, if the Indian white tigers are inbreed, they are only between other Indian tigers. So inbreed or not, they are pure, just like the South China tigers, which are even more severely inbreed but they are still "pure".

Finally, I have not say that Varty allowed "canned hunt". Read my words again, I was sarcastic in my paragraph, the true account was that he allowed to a rich man dart his largest tiger, in a similar way than the old tiger hunts. The tiger itself was NOT killed, but the act itself and the way to obtain money is what don't convince me.
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