Theme park under attack for breeding rare mutated tiger - TW

[dArKeR]

By Chiu Yu-Tzu
STAFF REPORTER

The white tiger at Leofoo Village Theme Park in Hsinchu County is pictured earlier this month.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ANIMAL SOCIETY OF TAIWAN
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/photo/2004/07/22/2003139886

Animal-rights activists yesterday slammed the private Leofoo Village Theme Park in Hsinchu for displaying a white tiger and attempting to breed it, saying that breeding white tigers is an act of brutality against animals and is motivated solely by a desire to make money.

According to the Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan, there are less than 300 white tigers in the world. Despite the animals' rarity, the society says that they do not qualify as an endangered species because they are not in fact a species -- instead, they are ordinary Bengal tigers with a color mutation.

Early this month the theme park acquired two tigers -- a white tiger from Indonesia, and a female tiger which looks like an ordinary Bengal tiger, but which was bred from white parents.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/07/22/2003179909

[jobycom]

1. Seems less cruel than making the tiger go through life without

sex just because he's white.

[treepig]

2. right, there must be something i'm missing here

tigers don't like to have sex?

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