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shinratdr on Dec 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

According to the Nature of Things, one in every 100,000. Considering how few tigers there are on the planet (less than 50,000) the chances of one naturally occurring are extremely small.

sliverstorm on Dec 16, 2012 [–]

Come now, if it is one in every 100,000 and we've got 50,000 of them the odds are we get a white tiger every other generation.

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