White, Black & Golden Tigers

[Sanju]

@Rishi completely correct. Very very good.

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These coat variants are random error or variants or genetic mutants formed in nature continuously during sexual reproduction and recombinations and it is natural to happen and should happen.

In which only very very small percentage are naturally selected individuals which show favorable adaptations to the changing conditions will survive and pass on their traits to progeny and the rest of the individuals of species will die due to circumstances or environmental conditions (Bottle neck and founder's effect too play roles).

So that over time, the population of that species gradually filters out necessary characters morphological and physiologically through natural selection process resulting in subspecies further to entire species, genera and so on which inter breed only themselves. That's how Evolution works like a continuous flow or process.

And these mutant tigers are formed due to inbreeding in our current Indian reserves in which these mutant genes are being carried as recessive genes. They become expressive due to inbreeding. Nothing more, these are just freaks that won't last "long" in survival unless environment changes favoring to their morphology. Man filtered these from wild and selectively breeding them in captivity for various purposes of his own.

These golden, white, psuedo melanistic blah blah tigers should go extinction by stopping breeding them in captivity or breeding them with dominant variants over time to eliminate those recessive genes. In case of wild, it is high time to take measures against this inbreeding effect in ranth, gir, similipal etc.., whatever to stop this high abnormality rates and risk of wiping out as whole due to any type of catastrophe by either building corridors naturally or human intervened relocation. In Tiger canyons too white tiger specimens are sterilized to make them stop breeding as they don't have conservation importance. Reply