White tigers are an endangered species and it is said that less than a dozen have been seen in India in about a hundred years. In fact no sightings have been reported since 1951. This may be caused by the fact that the Royal Bengal tiger population has dropped from 40,000 to 1,800 in the past ten years and as few as one in every 10,000 tigers is white (www.cranes.org/whitetiger). White tigers are neither albinos nor …
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…all we need is to get everyone interested in helping this beautiful species that is greatly decreasing. Bibliography Citing Sources Burn, David. The Animal World. Hong Kong: Octopus Books. 1980. Cavendish, Marshall. Wildlife of the World. New York: Cavendish Corporation. 1994. DuTemple, Lesley. Tigers. New York: Lerner Publishing. 1996. McClung, Robert. Last of the Wild. Connecticut: Linnet Books. 1997. Morris, Desmond. The World of Animals. New York: Penguin Group. 1993. Thapar, Valmik. Land of the Tiger. New York: Worldwide Publishing. 1997. (10/13/99) (11/8/99) (10/13/99) (10/13/99) (10/13/99) (10/13/99)