There is only one way a white tiger is born with a white coat and that is through inbreeding generation after generation. The mutation not only causes a white coat but a number of defects in these felines.
The gene that causes the tigers coat to be white also causes the optic nerve to be bounded to the wrong side of their brain. This gene deformity means is that all white tigers are cross eyed, even if their eyes look normal. They also often suffer from club feet, deformities in their spines, flawed organs, and cleft palates.
Cubs only get the white coat if they have a double recessive gene which is cause by inbreeding. Some may have normal coloring but suffer the same defects referred to as traders as “throw away tigers”. Only white tigers are big money makers so the normal colored tigers usually are killed at birth.
The gene that causes the tigers coat to be white also causes the optic nerve to be bounded to the wrong side of their brain. This gene deformity means is that all white tigers are cross eyed, even if their eyes look normal. They also often suffer from club feet, deformities in their spines, flawed organs, and cleft palates.
Cubs only get the white coat if they have a double recessive gene which is cause by inbreeding. Some may have normal coloring but suffer the same defects referred to as traders as “throw away tigers”. Only white tigers are big money makers so the normal colored tigers usually are killed at birth.