Over 100 years ago almost 40,000 Bengals existed. Present day, the population of the Bengal tiger is larger than all four other subspecies put together, it is estimated that there are less than 3,000 left in the wild . Another incredible part of the Bengal subspecies is the White tiger. The first white tiger was captured in 1951 in central India, and from there was bred with its offspring to create more. White tigers are not albinos, if they were their eyes would be pink, when in fact their eyes are bright blue.
Bengal tigers are the only subspecies with the double recessive gene that allows the white coloring.
Very little is known about this tiger in the wild. The Indochinese Tiger has a darker coloring, with short thin stripes. It is believed that there are anywhere from 1,100 to 1,700 tigers left, spread widely throughout Indochina. Males weighing at 400lbs, females at 250lbs. Somewhere close to the 1960's the population of the South China Tiger was near the 4,000's, but after the government declared them pests they were hunted without pity and over 3,000 skins were accounted for.