There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
If it was really a white tiger, no body would be able to tell. Very suspicious in its own right, is it not?
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Your first link states this
"However, the genetic basis of this phenotype remains unknown."
Your second link doesn't mention where the white tigers and orange tigers are from and again it also states nothing about white tigers surviving in the wild. It is also far to technical for me to interpret, you would most likely need to be a pretty well versed scientist to be able to comprehend those techincal terms.
Third link is a thesis and not a scientifically accepted paper, correct?
Either way, it states this again
"Furthermore, the relationship between the genes associated with coat color and levels of inbreeding also remain unknown."
As you can see, none of those links are relevent to wether white tigers survive in the wild and if white "bengals" in india are not with birth defects.
The only way we could "conserve" a pure bred white bengal would be to capture and draw blood of many tigers, find ones with the white gene then bring them together, then hope that they will breed with eachother since we have no idea how two wild cats would act from different areas, then hope that they still would have the luck to have a white tiger cub, then that cub would be the first of its kind to make it to adulthood without or protection, unless you say we are going to put these cats in captivity for the rest of their life?
As you can see, that is the furthest thing from "conservation", that is human beings playing god and completely over stepping their boundries. I can't believe that you would think that, I am probably misinterpretting your plans to conserve a white bengal.
Bengals in india or america still have one father. Go back far enough, they are all sons and daughters of Mohan. So they are all inbred. That is undeniable, correct?
I also enjoy discussing this topic with you, you are by far one of my favorite posters to read, your extremely educated and explain in a very easy to understand way.
Thanks for the continued debate