White tiger facial portrait closeup wild animal Houston Downtown Aquarium Texas tourist attraction
A white tiger is a tiger with a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment in the normally orange fur, though they still have dark stripes. Another genetic condition also makes the stripes of the tiger very pale; white tigers of this type are called snow-white or "pure white". This occurs when a tiger inherits two copies of the recessive gene for the paler coloration, which is rare. White tigers have a pink nose, pink paw pads, grey-mottled skin, ice-blue eyes, and white to cream-coloured fur with black, ash grey, or chocolate-coloured stripes. Mr. Scott of the Indian police gave this description of a captive white tiger's eyes: The colourings of the eyes are very distinct. There is no well defined division between the yellow of the comex and the blue of the iris. The eyes in some lights are practically colourless merely showing the black pupil on a light yellow background.
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Location: Houston Downtown Aquarium, Texas
Photo credit: © M. Timothy O'Keefe / Alamy / Afripics
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