After reading your comments and emails I decided to write a special post for another type of big cat, the White Tiger. As I said here I love animals and I get angry every time I read about stupid people who torture animals.
Regarding the white tiger, as well as the white lion I did some research and found out that these white cats are not albinos. Also albino people are very much different from albino wild cats.
“The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild” - Wikipedia
The only thing that bothers me is why on Earth would people want to see mutant tigers like the one in the pictures above? Why do they torture animals like that?
Note: all the pictures are taken from the Internet (again, thank you Google!). If some of the pictures belong to you, please let us know at webmaster at lolosad dot com and we’ll make sure to give you the credit.
Thank you for your time!
40 Responses
llcoolr
February 14th, 2008 at 6:48 am
1Hate those people.
Leave the nature the way that God made it.
joe
February 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
2You are retarded, these animals are not being tortured. Its a natural genetic mutation, one that happens to ruin their camouflage, which is why they are rare. See its kinda freaking hard to sneak up on your prey when you stick out like a sore thumb. So the fact that people are keeping these big guys in zoos/preserves is a good thing they are giving them a shot at life that they may not have had otherwise. But don’t get me wrong I cant stand outright animal abuse….but thats not what I see going on here.
admin
February 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
3Well Joe, no one is retarded. Obviously you don’t know how some things work in some natural parks.
When I talked about torture I was referring to the unhappy tiger who is a mutant, I wasn’t talking about their different color of hair. Are you sure you read the intro right?
Genetic mutations are frequent among many species of animals but that doesn’t mean people have the right to do play with genes the same way nature does.
Got it now?
Thanks for your time here!
Rynniex
February 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
4I WOULD have no problem with preserving the white tigers/lions in captivity IF it didn’t require such inbreeding, which is probably what lead to the above mutation. Then again, similar problems are being faced with other animals such as the Cheetah; so I don’t really know how I feel about it. Part of me thinks that such inbreeding and limited genetic pooling is horrible and dangerous…but then again… humans are a huge reason for (some) animals near-extinction…so other than getting people to actually stop poaching..how do we solve this problem??
I rambled a little..but you get my point. Captive breeding with endangered/rare animals…..good or bad?
Tzo
February 17th, 2008 at 3:07 am
5hey, how come that first tiger picture looks funny? you said it’s tortured? what happened to it and where is it located? you didn’t clarify that picture and I was curious as it looks a little strange.
Seolyk
February 17th, 2008 at 4:24 am
6so, i assume you have a problem with dog breeders too? If it weren’t for them we wouldn’t have all the kinds we have today.
Floors
February 17th, 2008 at 8:02 am
7I’m still waiting for “cat-dog”
admin
February 17th, 2008 at 8:07 am
8I don’t have any problem with dog breeders, although there are people breeding dogs just for fun, to see what comes out of that. (I know a few and I think it’s dreadful!)
Jay
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
9White tigers are a natural genetic mutation. It is not totally uncommon to fin d a white tiger among a natural litter in the wild. It just happens. It’s not due to the big bad human.
Katrina
March 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
10To Rynniex,
The Cheetah (& I can’t remember exactly when it was - but a long time ago) was SO near extinction that there were only 11 left in the world. None of them were placed in captivity & they bred to themselves & eventually re-populated. As majestic as they are, their self-imposed inbreeding left their immune system weak, but they hung out there in the big wilderness.
Like I said, I don’t remember the year of this statistic, but I learned it by watching Discovery, or some other Learning Channel, several years ago, so the details, other than what was mentioned above, is hazy.
All the animals, to me, are beautiful above, the one that looks mutated, I would actually like to look into that, it’s a severe mutation with the crooked teeth and the protruding brow, something you would expect to see on a Neanderthal, or perhaps some other ancient creature, not in today’s world.
Katrina
March 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
11I also wanted to mention that I find it VERY interesting that a cat would dive underwater to catch it’s prey, but it’s not impossible.
Recently my daughter and I have been watching Orangutan Island, a show of rescued orphaned Orangutans. One Orangutan orphan, out of curiousity, picked up a catfish from the water, clubbed it and ate it. The others did the same with their curiousity. Orangutans are herbivores not omnivores, so this behaviour is odd for them, but having no parent to teach them otherwise may be the reason for this odd behaviour. Another interesting feat is that Orangutans are solitary animals, yet these orphans have learned to live in groups and communities.
I would like to know if that particular cat is a water lover & discovered prey under the water, or if that cat was taught to swim & hunt in the water.
admin
March 6th, 2008 at 4:32 am
12Katrina : The pictures with the tiger diving in the water for it’s prey are obviously taken in a park or some Zoo. In nature it’s impossible to find a pool looking like that. Those pictures were send to me by a good friend that is a huge big cat lover (he’s a teacher and a couple of weeks ago he had a lesson about tigers and big cats and he found the pictures, don’t know where).
Thank you for your time here and thank you for making some things clear for us!
Maria
March 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
13http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/90/8/3172
The cheetah bottleneck happened 10,000 years ago, it probably had little to do with man.
musicman225
March 18th, 2008 at 8:06 am
14For those who want to know, the first pic is NOT a tortured tiger or deformed or anything. That is a liger, the offspring of a tiger and a lion. They are very rare, and don’t occur often in the wild. The reason this one is in a zoo is probably because it was born there, and they don’t survive well in the wild. So in reality, there is protecting going on here, not torture. I hate animal cruelty, but I hate ignorance more.
keith west
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
15Hello webmaster Finally I found a site the has some good information on funny dogs cats video. I was searching around and found your post The powerful White Tiger by Lolosad’s pictures, thanks for the good info..I\’ll be checkin back soon.
Bob the penguin lover
April 24th, 2008 at 4:30 am
16What about albino or leucistic penguins? So you have anything about them?????
lauren foss
May 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
17i think that we should not make fun of these poor creatures they have the same right as us
Lisa McDonald
May 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
18Actually, the first animal isn’t a liger. It is a white tiger who has a brachycephalic face like a bulldog. You generally get deformities like this as a result of inbreeding. Bulldog breeders capitalized on the mutation and created a whole breed from it. On a big cat it does look very strange. Rewati, the first white tigress born in the USA, was crosseyed and showed inbreeding depression in terms of health and fertility.
Lisa McDonald
May 14th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
19Actually, the animal is not a liger, but a white tiger. The very shortened jawed condition is called brachycephalic. The bulldog looks like it does because of a similar mutation. But for an animal that must hunt for a living this condition would be devastating. It is highly unlikely this cat would survive in the wild with restricted breathing, lower heat tolerance, and a coat that stands out like that. Facial deformities are often a form of inbreeding depression. Rewati, the first white tigress born in the USA, was crosseyed and low in vitality and fertility due to inbreeding depression.
Kat luver
May 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
20AWH, they are so CUTE!! and not being tortured they’re basically protecting them cuz they can’t survive with their color, and I mean it’s not like they hit them with whips, now that’s torturing.
Lamby
May 29th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
21Atleast whoever posted these pics cares about something other than materialistic sweatshop made products, and the person who called them a retard is messed up, my brother is schiczophrenic jackass, how about you take the name calling to elementary school jerk.
And there are other forms of torture other that pain and whipping things, white tigers DO occur in wild rarely, but yes they are made in the wild and in captivity. But that is a mutation that can’t exactly be controlled in nature, but a Liger? that is a little overboard, lets save the animals, not make more to extinct.
But the dog breeder comment is a gooood point, Man started with wild dogs and we domesticated them and bred them and eventually inbred them until we got the thousands of breeds we have today, not too much different than your tiger/lion inbreeding is cruel point huh?
ashely
June 4th, 2008 at 9:08 am
22hey you know what you did steal those pics but it doesnt matter at least some people care about the tigers
babe gurl
June 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
23well tzo if yu wuud click an the picture it says that the tiger is deformed…yur not very smart…duh
Jc
June 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
24If a white tiger cant live on its own in the wild then why can one be born white in a litter out in the wild? Before many white Tigers were captured in the wild and also hunted because of how rare they were. I believe animals shouldnt be traped in cages for peoples pleasure of viewing. the only time an animal should be captured is if their population is started to decrease to quickly and it needs some help to repopulate.
Thanks for hearing me out and sorry if you dont agree.
Jc
Michelle Johnson
June 12th, 2008 at 2:28 am
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sam
June 18th, 2008 at 10:21 am
26The entire captive white tiger population is descended from a single white tiger, that is why they are so prone to genetic defects. The gene that causes the white coat is recessive so the only way to get white tigers is through close and repeated inbreeding. Most the white tiger cubs bred are destroyed because of physical defects; only a few are suitable for display. That is where the abuse comes in - dozens of cubs have to be bred and discarded to get even one “useable” tiger.
See http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm for more information
White tiger cubs | Lolosad's pictures
June 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
27[...] I don’t really know or care if somebody else blogged about this subject. All I know is that white tigers are very rare and tiger cubs are very playful. Like any other cub. These lovely creatures (a male [...]
Tina
August 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
28The first picture is actually a white liger, which is the main reason for deformities, yes white tigers would not survive in the wild and it is a genetic defect, but major deformities can occur when lions and tigers are bread, as ligers are missing the gene that tells them to stop growing, this causes them to out grow their organs and bones.
Julia
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 am
29Theses tigers are being tortured… most of them are used in displays to attract peoples attention ie dreamworld shows. These white tigers are taken away from their mothers when they are just born and raised by humans so they are used to human contact. These mutated tigers only live for as little as 2 years because most born have some form of brain damage or missing chromosomes. Most born infact 80% of white tigers born look like the top 2 photos shown on this page,which means the other 20% are killed because humans have no use for them. We cannont keep breeding white tigers because it is not only immoral but it is ruining the tiger gene diversity and will make another sub species of tiger that we do not need. So next time you see a beautiful white tiger think it is one of the lucky 20% of them that do not look like the top pictures.
jessie
September 14th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
30i feel sorry for the deformed one.i agree with julia.she makes a good point.
arch
September 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
31Hi the first Tiger displayed is named Kenny asnd he has lived at the Turpinetine Creek animal refuge in Eureeka Springs Ark. I have been his adoptive “parent” for several years. He is not liger or the pics of him are not retouched or altered as I have heard somewhere. He is the product of selective inbreeding desined to increase the incidence of a white tiger. He has recently died due to a tumour. He was very gentile and loving. He will be very missed by all who loved him.
arch
September 26th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
32Hi
Sorry for the typos in the above, (I had to type this on the run )
Rich
November 18th, 2008 at 1:58 am
33My opinion on this is its absolutely terrible.I just recently learned about this and right the white tiger is a beautiful animal however not always a successful project. It’s not the inbreeding part that is so wrong despite it being pretty bad its the outcome of what happens. The tigers can be faced with skoliosis, deformity, cross-eyed, inability to reproduce and many other defects. And however this tiger isnt just the only one that as been knwon to have such defects. There im sure have been many others but with such conditions have not been cared for enough to be put onto public display and instead possibly killed or put into the cruel exotic animal market. If breeding is done to increase a dwindling population such as a polar bear or something like that do it wisely and not out of for other’s enjoyment. Forceful imbreeding is just honestly the cruelty and ignorant project of humans. Why should we always have a choice and they don’t? Not everything has to be used for science or entertainment.
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
34In my opinion it isn’t torture like some of you said i think that breeding them for that sort of look is cruelty, but what you said is true that they are protecting them from the horrible people who kill them in west Africa for there rare fur.
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
35Go veggie save the planet
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
36WTF! Why is admin such a fuckin retard!
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
37Write back;-)
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 6:58 pm
38So sorry I said that, just got a little angry. I am personally a vegan and choose to be because the treatment of animals. I have rabbits and like many of you despise animal abuse. It can be prevented and it is very sad that they have to go through this:-(.
Rabbit boy
November 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
39Julia is a fuckin retard go to college!
neha bansod
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:45 am
40we human can make food but as nature provide them they r leaving but only human r disturbing them.
except human animals know the princple of life yo enjoy it
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