White Tiger is a rare form of Bengal Tiger with a unique (recessive) gene inherited to it from its parents. It is due to the presence of this gene which gives it a white color.A white tiger is not a sub-specie of tiger.It is also not the albino form (the form in which hair and skin pigmentation is absent.White tigers are born only when two bengal tigers that possess a recessive gene (gene that affect the coat color) are bred together.
Currently there are no white tigers in the wild. The entire white tiger population in the world lives in captivity.
White tigers were found in the wild in India. The last white tiger captured in the wild was in back in May 1950s.
It is believed that the today’s entire population of white tiger has been generated from this one single white tiger.
Since then all the white tigers have been born by inbreeding father to daughter and granddaughter and so on. This was done to retain the recessive gene that controls the fur color.
