White Tiger Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, Eureka Springs, Arkansas: In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, ice-blue eyes and a pink nose. WITH his wide face, short snout and huge underbite, Kenny the rare white tiger makes a strange spectacle. White tigers are very rare. White tiger named Kenny bred for $50G, allowed to … Kenny's deformed face, which many people claimed was caused by Down's Syndrome, is the result of cruel inbreeding by money-hungry animal traffickers who could make as … This surgery was very successful, but “Kenny” died at the age of 10 years in 2008, which was considered half lifespan compared to the age of a normal tiger. The Royal White Tiger is one of the most valuable conservation tools that zoos and theme parks have in their education arsenal on the visitor level today. Very simply put, the White Tiger attracts attention of the zoo visitor. The diagnosis of Down’s Syndrome is also questionable. White tiger named Kenny bred for $50G, allowed to … Kenny’s inbreeding was a result of the limited genetic pool of white tigers. Not every failed white tiger is lucky to be saved like Kenny was. Therefore, breeders have only a few tigers to work with. With such a limited number, sooner or later, you’ll end up breeding closely related tigers. Well, a tiger lives on land, and a great white shark lives in the water, so if the tiger came in water, it would probably drown, if the shark came on land long enough, it would die. It is important that the white tiger “Kenny” was suffered by a number of health issues and a large tumor was removed in the year 2007. Well, a tiger lives on land, and a great white shark lives in the water, so if the tiger came in water, it would probably drown, if the shark came on land long enough, it would die. WITH his wide face, short snout and huge underbite, Kenny the rare white tiger makes a strange spectacle. Tangentially, this is a neat journal article about tiger subspecies genetics and the geographic division thereof. According to the internet, we don't: While much of the coverage refers to Kenny as being alive, the Pet Collective report he died in 2008. With his wide face, short snout and huge underbite, Kenny the rare white tiger makes a strange spectacle. Kenny's deformed face, which many people claimed was caused by Down's Syndrome, is the result of cruel inbreeding by money-hungry animal traffickers who could make as much as £30,000 per pet white tiger … It is important that the white tiger “Kenny” was suffered by a number of health issues and a large tumor was removed in the year 2007. With his wide face, short snout and huge underbite, Kenny the rare white tiger makes a strange spectacle. It's not clear if his death was directly caused by the inbreeding but McCormack says that white tigers almost always have health issues such as kidney problems, spine issues and cleft palates. Kenny is a bengal tiger too - it's a subspecies, with "white tiger" just a phenotypic description (apparently consisting of only Bengals?). White tigers are extremely rare. This surgery was very successful, but “Kenny” died at the age of 10 years in 2008, which was considered half lifespan compared to the age of a normal tiger. He was one of its longest-standing icons. Sadly, Kenny died in 2008, at the age of just 10, of a melanoma. Failed white tigers like Kenny are likely to be abandoned, sold as freakshow displays, to supply tiger meat parts to the Asian markets or otherwise exploited and abused, eg as canned hunting targets! Singapore zoo’s oldest white tiger, Omar, dies 3 months shy of 18th birthday.