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The Truth About White Tigers and Why Their Breeding Needs to Stop, including case studies!
The white tiger is a rare pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger. White tigers lack the pheomelanin pigment that normally gives a tiger its orange coloration, but they still produce the lighter eumelanin, and are therefore not considered to be albinos (i.e., deficient in all forms of skin pigment).
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-truth-about-white-tigers-and-why-their-breeding-needs-to-stop/
The white tiger is a rare pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger. White tigers lack the pheomelanin pigment that normally gives a tiger its orange coloration, but they still produce the lighter eumelanin, and are therefore not considered to be albinos (i.e., deficient in all forms of skin pigment).
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-truth-about-white-tigers-and-why-their-breeding-needs-to-stop/
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