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In reply to the discussion: $13,500 to Kill Sacred White Buffalo in Texas—Can This Be True? [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)27. This thinking is why people intentionall inbreed for "white tigers"
In tigers in particular, the recessive gene that causes white fur is crosslinked to a number of congenital defects.
But people ooh and ahh at the rare "white tiger", not knowing the ones that get thrown away:
http://bigcatrescue.org/abuse-issues/issues/white-tigers/
The ONLY way to produce a tiger or lion with a white coat is through inbreeding brother to sister or father to daughter; generation after generation after generation. The kind of severe inbreeding that is required to produce the mutation of a white coat also causes a number of other defects in these big cats.
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White buffaloes are not plentiful. Albino animals of all kinds are very rare. They should be viewed
jwirr
Aug 2015
#6
They could do a GoFundMe thing, and probably hit goal the first day.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
#26
Exactly. Unfortunately that is what hunting has come down to today. Trapping an animal so that
jwirr
Aug 2015
#15
SOLD! To the asshole dentist from wherever...number 35 I think.....That guy,,,,,,
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2015
#31