Mohan was then bred to his daughter Radha (who carried the white gene inherited from her father) with success. The initial litter of four cubs—a male named Raja, and three females named Rani, Mohini, and Sukeshi—were the first white tigers born in captivity, on October 30, 1958.Stracey, P.D., Tigers, London: Baker, New York: Golden P., 1968 Raja and Rani went to the New Delhi Zoo, and Mohini was bought by the German-American billionaire John KlugeReed, Theodore H. "Enchantess: Queen Of An Indian Palace Rare White Tigress Comes To Washington." National Geographic May 1961 for $10,000, for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., as a gift to the children of America, in 1960.
