8/3/2019 Why White Tigers Shouldn't Be Bred in Captivity and Released in the Wild

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Why White Tigers shouldn't be bred andreleased in the wild.

In nature, a white tiger is born through chronic inbreeding within a

population. Royal White Bengal Tiger doesn't really exist, it is an aberrant ofthe RBT and even if a few are born they don't last long in nature, as nature isin the business of eliminating deleterious genes. If Rewa ungles had somenaturally occurring white tigers it surely happened due to severe inbreeding.White tigers, therefore, have no role in conservation of Indian tigers.

! heavily inbred population has a large number of recessive genes " the bade#ects of which the nature hides by a dominant gene for the same functionbut when two similar recessive genes come together they are wiped outnaturally as such individual are defective and unable to win the battle tosurvive.

The white tiger has two recessive genes for white colour its phenotypicalexpression is in its white coat colour and blue eyes $in a double recessiveo#spring the white colour shows the faint blac% stripes beneath&. But a whitetiger also has an array of double recessive genes that have no obviousphenotypic expression nevertheless they are harmful. ost white tigers thatsurvive after birth su#er from birth defects such as immune de(ciency,scoliosis of the spine $distorted spine&, cleft palates, mental impairments andgrotes)uely crossed eyes bulging from their s%ull. !ll white tigers are cross"eyed, whether it shows or not, because the gene that causes the white coatalways causes the optic nerve to be wired to the wrong side of the brain.

*nly a few inbred white tiger progeny are worthy of display in +oos as mosthave some visible deformity $http--www.freewebs.com-crac%lecaracal-whitetigers.htm &

This aberration must not be aggravated by breeding white tigers in captivityand releasing them in the forests. eep them in +oos and tell the truth aboutthem to visiting public to enhance their awareness about these haplesscreatures.

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