White Tiger (Panthera tigris)

Also known as the white Bengal tiger, is a subspecies of tigers found throughout India. Although the tiger's territory is historically very large, these animals are very rare because of their white fur color whith black lines due to genetic errors that occur when the mother's contents. Over the centuries white tigers have become more scarce in the wild due to hunting and arrest to be traded as exotic pets. Because of its scarcity, for more than 50 years there has been no recordof the whitening days in its wild habitats. Today, white tigers can still be found in several zoos and animal breedjng sites around the world. Similar to the Bengal tiger, the white tiger is declared the second largest tiger species in the world after the siberian tiger.

White tiger is a Bengal tiger species that is one of the species listed by IUCN as an endangered species. Estimates of about 100.000 tigers from various subspecies were found in Asian mangroves in the early 1990s, but today there are only about 8.000 tigers in the wild, with about 2,000 of them Bengal tigers. And even more sadly, it's been almost 50 years have never seen a white tiger in the wild.