White tigers are inbred too and it causes well documented major health issues. ![]() All white tigers stem from one tiger, Mohan a captured cub, his white mother having been killed. The melanistic tiger has been seen three times, once in each of Myanmar, Bangladesh and eastern India. They refer to the melanistic tiger (black tiger) and white tiger but not other morphs. There are no references to the golden tabby tiger in the respected Wild Cats Of The World by Mel and Fiona Sunquist. The liger, which is a tiger/lion cross, also comes to mind as an overweight flabby big cat. One element of this unfitness might be inbreeding. The photographs of golden tabby tigers I have seen are of flabby not tabby cats! They are overweight and unfit in my opinion. It is completely out of place when used to describe the appearance of a tiger. ![]() The word "tabby" is basically a cat fancy word in the breeding of domestic purebred show cats. To use the word "tabby" indicates to me that is was first used by tiger breeders. There is no element of conservation in the process.Īnd another thing. The white tiger is another example of an acutely inbred wildcat that is bred for the sake of financial profit. It seems to me that you have to inbreed this tiger in captivity to get the gene to express itself in this rare coat type (seen above). The golden tabby tiger's coat is a product of the presence of a recessive gene that lies dormant and is therefore not expressed through a different coat (phenotype). Golden tabby tiger on display with "Doc" Antle - Photo by jmwests And people who are pro-captive tigers and pro tigers as pets say that the golden tabby tiger and other tigers with a variety of coat types are good for conservation because they stimulate our interest in the tiger and in supporting conservation. Yet it exists as a tourist attraction in captivity. There is nothing to suggest that it has ever existed in the wild. ![]() I have a problem with the golden tabby tiger.
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