Are White Tigers/Lions Larger than Normal Colored?

[Sully]

I fairly recently visited another zoo which housed both tawny and white lions. Very conveniently the lions, though separated by a fence, were right next to each other. They zoo claimed the tawny lions were Barbary (of which I highly doubt their genetic purity though they looked the part) and didn't specify the sub group of the white lion from memory. I got some pictures that I will hopefully share as soon as I retrieve them, but while analysing both at the time, I noticed a very marginal advantage in favour of the white lion group. Again this means little as it's just anecdotal, but I thought I'd note this, and plan on doing so with every zoo that contains both just to see if my findings are consistent. Reply