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The Story Of The World’s First White Ligers
There are around 1,000 ligers in the world today, but none of them were white until these 4 cubs came along.
They are also the most pointless big cats on the planet because they have no conservation value!
This .. hurts my brain.
White tigers are genetically fucked up already - hybrids between subspecies, inbreed to “fix” the recessive white gene. And then someone figured that breeding a white tiger to a white lion was a good idea??? Ligers (and tigrons) already have known problems due to them being hybrids; their genes don’t work perfectly resulting in various health problems.
And… why would you make a didyouknow post about it without mentioning their downsides?? I can’t imagine the number of people now gushing over this :I
These cubs were born over a year ago and this is literally the only thing I’ve heard about them despite how “awesome and rare” they are. Are they even still alive you think?
It pisses me off so much when popular ‘facts’ blogs go and do shit like this T___T
Hey there! There is this one place in Africa called Timbavati where white lions can be camouflaged effectively, so they are able to thrive. The white color morph is a mutation of the lions in the Timbavati area. But white lions are leucistic, and leucism is caused by a double recessive gene, so, unfortunately, there are facilities that do inbreed for white lions because they are beautiful and said facilities want to stand out. As of right now, I don’t think the inbreeding is as severe as white tigers, but it’s still problematic and I wouldn’t be surprised if we got to the point white tigers are at now sometime in the future. Please read these articles: x|x|x.