White, Black & Golden Tigers

[GuateGojira]

White tigers are not deformed, or astronomically rare. White tigers are a natural gene that most be conserve and we have not the right to simply discard them as an "unnatural" creature.

In the pass, the Bengal population was much larger than in the present, so the chances to see a white tiger were larger, at least 1 in 1,000 specimens, which is good; sadly in the present, the gene is extinct in wild because humans destroy it, not the nature. The "deformed" characteristic was caused by humans and the inbreeding, not by the gene itself (take a look on the thesis that I provided). Besides, the Indian white tigers, if they breed with normal orange Bengals, it will be possible to produce white tigers without inbreeding, like the thesis that I have show states.

On the "pure" issue, white tigers in the present are still Bengal tigers, they have the Indian genes and then, they are pure. If we follow your logic, the South China tigers are no longer pure and most be discarded to, which I am not agree. Those genes, the South China one and the white one, are natural and should be conserve. There are new genetic methods that can be used in order to return the "purity" of this varieties. By the way, I will not consider the white tiger a different  species, but only a variation of the Bengal population.

Finally, about the white tigers in America, you are right, I can't prove that ALL are Amur-Bengal mix, but take in count the history of the breeding of this animals in American, it is so bad that I can state that probably 90%, at least, of the American white tigers are already a mix! From my point of view, only those in India are viable for the recovery of the white gene, although with extreme hard work.
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