This I think came from directly from Yuli Seal or indirectly. He never approached me directly with this, but he, you know, he approached Bill Conway and Bill Conway came out and stated that white tigers were freaks, but Bill had a short memory because a few years before that, he had a ricketic white tiger on display in his lion house, and he had a full purple banner going all the full length of the building, white tiger on display before we had a white tiger, so that was kind of dirty pool, I felt. I mean, it wasn’t discussed with me. The history of our animals came through actually the National Zoo. We held two of their cats while they were remodeling two heterozygous, two orange, an orange female an an orange male, Ramana and Kasari, and they had never bred, the National Zoo hadn’t bred them. They tried, but they hadn’t bred them. They were offspring of Mohan, apparently had some, way back to the first white tiger that the National Zoo received during the Eisenhower administration. So we bred them in our zoo.
