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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- tiger
- Named after
- Rewa State
- Country
- India
- Image
- Panthera tigris (Tigre blanc) - 391.jpg
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- Commons category
- White tigers
- used by
- Siegfried & Roy
- color
- white
- different from
- White tiger
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Encyclopedic overview
A captive white tiger at the Singapore Zoo
The white tiger is a leucistic morph of the tiger, typically the Bengal tiger. White tigers have the typical black stripes of a tiger, but its coat is otherwise white or near-white, and it has blue eyes. Natural occurrences of this mutation are occasionally reported in the wild in India. The vast majority of white tigers are a result of intentional inbreeding for human entertainment, a practice which is banned by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for institutions wishing to be accredited.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “white tiger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.