Are white tigers albinos?
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wickedwillie
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White tigers are simply white-coloured Bengals and not a separate subspecies as many people think (it would perhaps be more accurate to call it an aberrant colouration). They lack much of their normal colour so can be considered albinistic, but the presence of pigmentation causing the stripes and colour in the lips, paw pads and nose, means they are not albinos. A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the unusual gene for white colouring. The double recessive allele in the genetic code only turns up naturally about once in every 10,000 births. For unexplained reasons it seems to occur only in the Bengal subspecies. http://www.answers.com/topic/white-tigers http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/albinos.html
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White tigers are not albinos. An albino lacks all color pigmentation and there are a very few tigers that are infact albinos but they are all white with no black strips. The white tiger is a black and white stripped the gene that causes white tigers is very similar to the gene that causes blue eyes in humans. Mom and Dad must both carry this double recessive gene. Infact white tigers almost always have blue eyes unlike regular tigers which have brown eyes.
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no they cant always be albino just becouse they are white they could just be a normal tiger they just have some diferent genetics.
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No, in fact there is no photographic evidence of albino tigers or recent records. Even the white tigers with seemingly all white fur just have very pale stripes. White tigers do share many abnormalities with albinos of other species, chiefly poor eyesight, but are still not considered true albinos
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