The White Tiger is a morph of the tiger – it is not a tiger but a Bengal or Siberian tiger with the rare colour mutation called leucism. A recessive gene causes a lack of pigmentation in the fur, resulting in its unique white coat. It is occasionally reported in the Indian wilderness - the most recent possibly in 2017 and 2020. It has the typical black stripes of a tiger, but its coat is otherwise white or near-white, and it has blue eyes. Only a handful of white tigers have ever been spotted in the wild, and because their coat doesn't serve as camouflage, most wild white tigers don't survive into adulthood. Instead, there are around 200 existing today because they are bred in captivity.
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