naturepunk:ohmyweirdo:semperubisubboobie:vmagazine:Dr Bhagavan Antle of The Institute of Greatly End
naturepunk:ohmyweirdo:semperubisubboobie:vmagazine:Dr Bhagavan Antle of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S), photographs 4 varieties of Bengal tigersThere really aren’t enough people in the world who care about protecting beautiful creatures like these.Magic.T.I.G.E.R.S is an absolute shit-hole establishment masquerading as a conservation group. This is a prime example of an exploitative organization using the guise of “we’re helping animals!” to line their pockets with cold hard cash. Notice how many of the mutation-colored (white and “golden tabby”) tigers appear to have facial deformities. Most have eyes that are either too small for their skull size, or which are set too far apart or close-together on their faces compared to the normally-pigmented cats above. Part of it has to do with the fact that literally every white tiger in North America (and quite probably the entire world) is the result of repeated inbreeding. The gene that creates the white pigmentation is double-recessive so both parents have to be carriers. But all white tiger can trace their ancestry back to a single male named Mohan, who was bred to one of his own daughters to produce the first captive-born white tiger on earth. The inbreeding has persisted ever since. Same goes for those “golden tabby” tigers; they are the result of a mutation that was never actually recorded in the wild, and which only appears in captive-bred cats after continued inbreeding. Neither mutation is favored in nature, and is actually a detriment to these animals’ survival. They serve no conservation-related purpose and are simply a novelty exploited by hack-job “conservationists” like T.I.G.E.R.S. -- source link