At present, there are no known white tigers in the wild. White tigers are only Bengal tigers, a rare color morph, and can appear in a normal litter at any time. They are not a separate species.
53 white tigers were killed on average in 2010. White tigers rarely occur in the wild, but they're quite common in captivity and several are killed each month. Don't change my answer i have researched white tigers many years now.
I work with tigers and there is not such a thing as a snow tiger. White tigers are just white Bengals. Tigers do not have any natural enemies, only humans.
In captivity, white tigers will chill with normal tigers.In the wild, white tigers are usually still-born, or they're killed by the mother because they won't be able to live in the wild anyway.Also, only Bengals have white cubs naturally.
to not let them go extinct.
they are being hunted.
Nothing. There are no white Bengals left in the wild at this time. This was rare, white tigers are only a color morph of the Bengal. All white tigers today are descended from two found in Rewa, India in 1967.
They are not being killed, because there are none in the wild. In 1967, two white Bengal tiger cubs were found in Rewa, India. All of the white tigers in zoos are descendents of these, being bred to normal colored tigers and having some cubs born white. These are mated to others carrying the white gene, and this keeps the numbers of these beautiful mutations around for zoos. my answer is people killed them before the tiger cubs were found people killed them before that ,thank you ziguy74455:
Despite their protected status white tigers are a high priority for poachers who hunt them illegally for their skins and other body parts which are very valuable on the black market.
The only difference between white and normal tigers is the color of the fur. Any difference will be down to individual reasons, not color.
white tigers
Because they are white.
Well, if you think that tigers are beautiful animals, then maybe you'd want a tiger rug on your floor, or a tiger coat, or a tiger-whatever. And as soon as someone is willing to pay enough for a thing like that, then there's someone willing to do what it takes to earn that money. And tigers get killed.