P eople have found ways to protect

themselves by wearing masks on the

back of their heads. Tigers only attack
>from behind ,so the mask fools them. It seems
like the personis always facing them! Another
used to deter tigers scarecrows-which gives
electric shock so any tiger that dummy gets a
mild shock. It helps teach tigers to stop
attacking people. Tigers dont like becoming
pets because they are wild. Even captive cubs
that have been raised by humans are not not
domesticated. Trainers in a circue use whips or
chains to scare the tigers into submission.

White tigers are not a separate subspecies of

tigers, they are not from cold, snowy climates-
they come from India. White tigers are a rare
form of Bengal tiger. Theyre regular tigers with
whiskers and tails- they just happen to be
colored. White tigers actually range from pure
white to white with chocolate brown or black
stripes. Many white tigers have blue eyes, but
some have amber or even greenish eyes. White
is a very, very unusual color for a wild tiger. Of
the thousands of tigers in the wild, only a few
are white. There are many white in captivity,
though-and almost all of them are descended
from a wild white Bengal tiger named mohan
that was captured in India in the 1950s.

Almost all the captive white tigers in North

America today are descended from Mohan and
are highly inbred. Some white tigers also been
mated with other tiger subspecies, creating
what are called hybrid tigers.