
The white tiger is white with black stripes, pink paws and ice blue eyes. All subspecies of tigers can carry the recessive genes to code for a white tiger; however, white tigers born in their native habitat rarely survive due to their lack of camouflage.
The Mirage welcomes its newest additions to Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat - white, white-striped and golden tiger cubs! The public will be able to see these rare and adorable cubs in a special nursery created for them in the Secret Garden beginning Friday, June 13, 2008, which happens to be Siegfried's 69th birthday.
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White tigers ARE NOT a subspecies, they
are a genetic variation. |
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White tigers ARE NOT albinos. The coloration of these
animals is due to leucism, which is a lack of dark pigmentation. |

Almost all white tigers in
zoological facilities are
descended from one
Bengal tiger named
Mohan that was
found in India
in the 1950s.
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