It can mate with orange tigers but the cub will be orange unless the orange parent had a recessive gene. White tigers are usually bigger at birth and as adult. White tigers have the advantage in the wild because they are bigger despite their unusual coloration deference.

In 1980 three white tigers where born. What was surprising about this was that the parents were orange. Their parents each had one recessive gene that showed up in the offspring. It is supposed that in every one thousand tigers one of them is white in the wild.