Video: Rare white tigers born in the Ukraine The newborns were reportedly in good health and were being taken care of by staff at the Skazka zoo in southern Ukraine. Four kittens from a cat is very rare. Because, as a rule they give birth to two, maximum three. In this case we have four," zoo vet Sergei Trofimov said. The zoo's director Oleg Zubkov explained how rare the tigers were. "There are only a very few white tigers in the world and - there are only a little over 100 in the world, so their birth in captivity is always a big event in the life of a zoo," he said. One of them is actually an albino. Usually these tigers are white with black stripes, but there are also albinos without black stripes," he added. A competition is being held to name the four newborn cubs.