White, Black & Golden Tigers

[paul cooper]

(01-04-2018, 07:26 AM)Rishi Wrote: @Pckts @parvez @paul cooper wild white tigers in several occasions have been hunted in India. Even the Indian Museum the has a stuffed taxidermy specimen. Here read these:
All about white tigers.
Complete genetic history of all captive white tigers.

The tiger in whom the mutation took place might not have been white. The gene had surfaced from time to time later on. 

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c.1930s Van Ingen – White Tiger Skin

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In the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 

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And last but definitely not the least... A painting from Akbarnama, biography of Mughal Emperor Akbar the great (reigned. 1556-1605).

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Mohan was one of many such cases. After his capture in 1915, at the age of 2, he became the sole source of the genetic trait in captivity & improper management of breeding have given rise to inbreeding related genetic depression in foreign zoos as they tried to take a shortcut.

"15 white tigers were killed in the region of BiHar alone"
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