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What Baby Tigers are Forced to do Might Shock You
Warning: Disturbing content.
Look, I know this is the HSUS so take it with a grain of salt if you need, but the footage doesn’t lie. This is exactly what happens to these cubs and I have seen the same types of footage over and over from other sources on cub petting venues. This is the norm. But this is what you’re supporting when you pet cubs. No matter what they say, no matter how nice they look.
[Image description: White tiger on what looks to be a stage, with caption: “Generations of captivity and inbreeding make white tigers unsuitable for conservation. They’re bred solely for profit.”]
awesome-tigers-deactivated20141:
Your reaction is overzealous and ignorant of the truth of the matter.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/save-the-white-tigers/
u know nothing charles snow
My last name is not Snow- if you would like to debate this based on facts and logic, I am open to the idea- or are you just going to call me names?
omg chill i didn’t actually call u a bastard omggg. either way since u rely on Grammar and Logic so much allow me to tell you how uneducated and poor your ~opinion~ actually really is in your style. (<- wow a dot!)
All white tigers are inbred. All white tigers are the descendants of one wild caught white cub somewhere in the 50’s, which should make the inbred part obvious. The gene that causes their white coat is double recessive (do not be mistaken though, this is not leucism!). Which means that it is very hard to get a white tiger, and thus the solution for this is inbreeding them (making their gene pool smaller and the chances of making that double recessive gene act up on the phenotype of an animal bigger). With inbreeding comes a long list of health issues, from strabismus to cleft palate to spinal deformities and even neurological dysfunctions! Logical, because you’re making the gene pool smaller, and thus erasing healthy genes that could have otherwise repress the unhealthy ones.
That is one. To understand what I’ve just written above, all you need is high school biology. If you want sources, google it. Or, if you desire to have everything served on your plate, I’d suggest you to scroll through my white tigers tag (that blog, too, belongs to me).
Now onto logic. White tigers cannot survive in the wild because of their coat color. You can hardly blend in with the dark green and brown vegetation with a white coat. This is also why animals other than tigers rarely survive out there with a color abnormality. Here we can think of piebaldism in deer. Individuals that are piebald or are abnormal in any other way are, for instance, more susceptible to sun burn or even skin cancer (same goes to white lions in the Kruger park). They also often times have deformed body parts, and therefore it is even encouraged among hunters that such animals should be taken down during hunting seasons in order to keep the gene pool of the species clean (hunting is also a conservation tool).
Want some more logic? You’ve already stated before that white tigers are not their own species nor subspecies. That their coat color is caused by a recessive gene. Yet you source articles stating the complete opposite, but other than that, it is highly unethical to breed an animal for a recessive gene that gives them no advantage in survival whatsoever. Even if them being white didn’t cripple them with both physical and neurological impairments, it still is. Why? There are only about 3600 tigers left in the wild. They’ve been given 20 years by scientists until definite extinction. Therefore, accredited zoos and other facilities (AZA/BIAZA/EAZA/etc) breed only for healthy, tawny individuals. They breed according to the SSP/EEP of tigers, in order to boost their numbers with healthy individuals so that whose offspring might one day also be release candidates to boost the numbers of tigers in the wild.
So here’s a recap: for a recessive gene to appear on the phenotype of an animal, a good amount of inbreeding is needed (because, as I’ve stated before, the gene is recessive, not dominant). There’s a reason why large conservation organizations don’t accredit facilities that breed for recessive genes. You can see the reasons above.
That should be about enough logic and facts for one day, don’t you think? It even surprises me that you act all high and dandy with the science you pathetically lack when you at the same time reblog pictures of (white) tigers from the Tiger Canyon! I see you’re against direct contact with these animals, yet that’s exactly what happens in Tiger Canyon! All the animals there are also generic (genetically impure), and a pregnant tiger there was also shot in the foot once there. So not only are you doing a nice job defending the cruel and conservationally useless practice of breeding white tigers, you are also spreading around pictures of facilities that are highly exploitative! Nice job! White, inbred, genetically crippled tigers surely are gorgeous, while there are about 3600 healthy, dying ones out there that are in desperate need of help!
Food for some thought, eh, Charles Snow?
One of the few more typical illustration pieces I did whilst at uni.
Animal rights isn’t something I get that up in arms about, honestly. But something really irks me about the whole white tiger thing… I think it’s the deception.
For those unaware, white tigers are NOT a sub-species of tiger. They should not be being bred for conservation, or arguably at all. And the breeding of them has damaged the captive tiger population, both white and regular, bengal and siberian, beyond repair. They also often suffer ill effects of in breeding.
Note the DNA being washed out in my image.
Learn more about the White Tiger Fraud.
Genetically Different Coloured White Tiger Cub by vijvijvij on Flickr.
This is the closest I’ve seen yet to a melanistic tiger, which is incredibly interesting to see in a white tiger no less. That being said, and novelty aside, have a look at how messed up this tiger looks. I almost think these cubs are declawed because the front paws in the top picture look so bizarre. The cub is already crosseyed too…
Yeah, certainly interesting but these cats do not look the healthiest out there. He doesn’t look declawed to me though, just really messed up paws.
From what I have found, the cub’s name was Chembian and he and his family belong to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Tamil Nadu, India. He did survive until adulthood but it sounds like he died after sustaining injuries from a tigress during attempts to breed him. This zoo really seems to have a lot of unethical breeding practices with their tigers though.
Hmm yeah, I don’t think he’s declawed, just has messed up paws. Does anyone else notice how grey (as in his base coat color) he looked as a cub? On this chart here I was thinking “black chinchilla”. But it looks like he lost the grey in adulthood.
Katmandu sits like a humanHe sits like this because he’s in pain and he suffers from hip dysplasia (white tigers are prone to it since they’re severely inbred). Do not look at this and say, “aw cute,” because it’s not cute; it’s tragic.
