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This is a trait of the Bengal tiger. White tigers are rare, even among Bengals, but nearly unknown among other subspecies of tiger. There are, however, some Siberian tiger /Bengal tiger white hybrids.

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Q: What subspecies of tiger carries the recessive white gene?
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Do white tigers and normal tigers live and act the same way?

Yes. The "white tiger" is a Bengal tiger with a white coat. The coat color is determined by a recessive gene that is specific to the Bengal subspecies.


What happens when white tigers and orange tiger mate?

It depends.... If the orange tiger has the recessive gene for white coat, then the white and orange tiger can have white and/or orange cubs. If the orange tiger does not have the recessive gene for white coat, then only orange cubs will be born.


Is a Caspian tiger a white tiger?

No,the Caspian tiger was an extinct subspecie of tigers that was almost in the Same size and Looks like the modern Siberian tiger,white tigers are a color morph Of any Subspecies of tigers(the Siberian tigers don't have this problem only if a Bengal tiger with a color morph and a Siberian will mate,so generally only a Bengal Tigers seem to have this mutant).A white tiger's pale coloration is caused by the presence of a recessive gene (the Same thing that causing a dominant allele for the jaguars and recessive allele for The leopards to have black fur)


Dominant and recessive traits of white tigers?

Being a tiger.


How did the white tigers become endandered?

The white tiger is not a separate subspecies, they are a color variant of the Bengal tiger. As such, they have always been very rare.


What are the five subspecies of white tigers?

There is only one, and it is not a species unto itself. The white tiger is only a rare color of the Bengal tiger.


Is there an animal that exists such as White tigers?

-Yes -White tigers are a color morph of any subspecies of tiger whose fur is almost white, though it is not a separate subspecies. -I fany Georgina Miners


Why are some tiger cubs born white?

White tigers are a genetic sport. It is a recessive gene.


Which will win a fight white tiger or bengal tiger?

White tigers are just a genetically flawed version of the Bengal tiger, so either can win, since they are both the same subspecies.


Are white tigers endangered species?

no they are not because they are not different species from the orange tigers. A white tiger is a tiger with a recessive gene that creates the pale coloration. Another genetic characteristic makes the stripes of the tiger very pale; white tigers of this type are called snow-white or "pure white". This occurs when a tiger inherits two copies of the recessive gene for the paler coloration, which is rare.


Why are there white and golden Siberian tigers?

No, not purebred Siberians. The white trait, which also produces the "golden tabby" tiger, is a Bengal tiger trait, but may appear in hybrids between the two tiger subspecies.


Are white bangled tigers still endengerd in 2012?

The white tiger is an extremely rare color morph of the Bengal tiger, and all tiger subspecies are endangered.