White Tigers
4 White Tigers call Big Cats of Serenity Springs home: Aries, Storm, Kenya, and Kasper.
• White tigers are only born to parents that both carry the recessive gene for white coloring.
• The white tigers are neither albinos (in which case they would have pink eyes), nor a separate species; they have chocolate stripes and blue eyes, although several variations in eye and stripe colors are seen.
• The first mutant "white" cub is believed to be the one trapped by the Maharaja of Rewa, who found it orphaned in the jungle in 1951. Named Mohan, the cub was later mated to a normal colored captive tigress who produced three litters with normal coloring. A few years later, Mohan mated with one of the offspring, producing the first litter of white cubs - these were to be the ancestors of others now in many zoos the world over.
• As of June 1998, there were 30 white tigers in U.S. zoos that participate in SSP (Species Survival Plan) programs.
• As of 2005, there are approximately 3000 white tigers in the U.S.
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