Can you make a white lion?
If a white tiger and a lion had a cub and that cub turned out be female (meaning it can reproduce) and it does it with a lion and have a cub… is there a possibility that cub will be white? (in appearance it should look like a lion but is white since it’s 75% lion 25% tiger)
White tiger + lion = Liger/Tigon female
Liger/Tigon female + lion = a white, 75%lion25%tiger cub
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Actually I believe that Ligers are always infertile, so that wouldn’t happen.
there are already white lions, with no tiger blood incorporated at all. there are 4 that live at the cincinnati zoo… 2 female, 2 male. what makes you think that you’d have to breed lions with tigers to get white lions??
Yes, according to Mendel’s Law of Segregation. It’s too complex to get into it here. Click this link for a detailed explanation: http://biology.about.com/library/weekly/aa100903a.htm
Well, Wikipedia says this; “In theory white tigers could be crossed with white lions to produce white, very pale or even stripeless ligers” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger ) but note they mention having a white lion to start with.
While they are rare, it might be easier to try to find a white lion rather than “make” one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/image_galleries/white_lions_new_gallery.shtml?5
I think it would be easiest of all to just use PhotoShop®
If it was possible there is a slim chance it could, but in a gene pool dark genes over take light genes if you know what i mean….
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Are albinos counted?