White, Black & Golden Tigers

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I have noted that instead of been a "Excellent Wildlife and Nature Videos" topic, this is now a "White tigers" topic. Sorry for that. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Continuing with these, I have found the document about the genetic of the white tigers and other two documents that can help us to understand why this mutation happen and that prove that the white gene has nothing to do with deformities (this is a cause of inbreeding, not of the gene).

Original document:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23707431

Support data:
http://abc.cbi.pku.edu.cn/talk/xu-xiao-tiger.pdf

Another new thesis:
http://repository.tamu.edu/bitstream/han...sequence=1

Let's see what we can learn from this new documents.

About Peter post, yes, there are other records of white tigers, he has post them previously so there is no doubt that white tigers are completely able to survive in the wild.

Now, about the white tiger in Russia, I will take that like a grain of salt, as there is no evidence that the white gene existed in this population. There are only rumors and rumors of rumors, nothing reliable, and about the skins, we most remember that skins can "travel" great distances, if not, remember the "Sudan tiger" described by Dereniyagala, based only in a skin, a ridiculous part on taxonomical history, according with Mazák, and I agree.
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