- Less than a dozen captive white tigers in the last 100 years can trace their ancestry back to one single white male tiger named Mohan.
- In India fewer than 2,500 wild tigers remain, over the past 15 to 20 years there were no recent spotting of white tigers.
- People who want to breed white tigers should hold off on the pronouncement until a formal management program can be introduced
- Description: the white tiger has blue eyes, pink nose, and a creamy white coat with black/brown stripes
- Abnormality is caused by a double recessive allele in the genetic code which only occurs approximately 1 out of 10,000 births in the wild.
- Siberian and Bengal tigers get interbred which creates a white hybrid tigers
- Every white tiger seen in Untied States are descendants of Mohan the tiger who was captured the year of 1951
- Rewa, Mohini in 1960, a two year old white tiger, was brought by a businessman for US $10,000.00 and was given to the national Zoo in Washington D.C.
- On December 5th, 1960, Rewa was found on the USA White house lawn with President Eisenhower.
- There are about 200 white tigers left in the world