zooophagous:8-alpha-leonis-8:White tigers are so rare that only one in every 10,000 Bengal tigers is
zooophagous:8-alpha-leonis-8:White tigers are so rare that only one in every 10,000 Bengal tigers is born white with black stripes and a pink nose.So when triplets were born in captivity in July, the white cubs proved to be a cute, black and white miracle.The cubs are living with their mother Surya Bara in ZOO Liberec in the Czech Republic and now the public has been asked to name one of them.White is a recessive trait in tigers, one that’s been heavily inbred for. It’s not a miracle, its a deliberate act of selective breeding for color by humans. White tigers are rare in the wild because white is a maladaptive trait for an ambush predator. They tend to die young because they can’t hunt, assuming they live to adulthood.The exploitation and heavy bad breeding practices makes the birth of a white tiger something of a shame, not a miracle. -- source link