A white tiger is just an albino form of a normal tiger. There is no distinct species called a white tiger. It is similar to the ‘albinos’ in human beings, who have no pigment in their skin.
“Albino” is the name originally given by Portuguese explorers to the “white” Negroes they saw in West Africa. Since then it also has come to mean an individual, of any species of a living thing, which lacks the pigments that other members of its race normally have. Albinos occur among all races of men, almost all species of domestic animals, and a wide variety of wild species. We also see, sometimes, the opposite, an intense pigmentation called “melanism”, which occurs in black squirrels, black pheasants and other species with black or nearly black feathers or skin.
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