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White Tigers
Beautiful, but misunderstood, white tigers are really just genetically flawed Bengal tigers. Extremely rare in the wild, they can appear in a litter with normal colored siblings. Those in captivity often suffer from inbreeding abnormalities.
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How are snow tigers and snow leopards alike?
Humans are effecting snow leopards because they are hunting them for their beautiful coat and it's a shame because there are only around 4,000 left in the wild there used to be around 8,500
Why are white tigers cream not orange?
For Bengal tigers who live in India, it is a genetic mutation of the fur colour. For siberians (who obviously live in Siberia, in Russia) it is the colour they change in the winter for camouflage, but in the summer, they are orange.
Why are White Tigers being killed?
The White tiger isn't a separate species. It's a rare, but naturally occurring version of (usually) the Bengal tiger.
There's never been a self-supporting population of White tigers only.
There are far more of them today in zoos and animal parks that there has ever been in the wild.
Most, if not all of them, can be traced to a wild caught male who was bred to one of his daughters some decades ago.
This Close inbreeding is why many of the White tigers in captivity have Health issues. They're (almost) all closely related.
In the wild, the poorer camouflage offered by the black and White fur, out of the very few cubs that are born, only an even smaller number makes into adulthood.
This means that they're so rare, that no one - even when tigers were more common - can make a living out of killing White tigers.
But if you're already out poaching, finding a White tiger would indeed bring you more Money, and Money is what it's all about for almost all poachers.
They are killed for their hides. Poachers can sell their coat on the black market, as with any tiger, but if it is from a "White Tiger" the demand is much greater. Also, most of the teeth, claws, organs, and bones will be sold for "Chinese Traditional Medicines" or used to make other artifacts. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
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What is the white tiger threats?
the main threats of survival is pochers because they use them for there bones for medicines and there fur is soled on the black market for rugs and stuff x
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What is the name of the white tiger?
White tigers are tigers whose fur is white instead of orange, with black stripes. The white fur is the result of a rare genetic mutation due to a recessive gene. In the wild the only white tigers are Bengal tigers, however very few wild white tigers reach adulthood because they don't have the camouflage that orange tigers do. White tigers are bred in captivity because they're popular, but because the gene is recessive and rare this usually results in inbreeding.
How did the white tiger get its name the bangle tiger?
The white tigers are in fact mostly white, with black stripes. They are ordinary Bengal tigers* (Panthera tigris tigris)that have acquired a recessive gene for albinism, or lack of skin pigment. Rather than affect the entire skin, it only affects the portions that would be tiger orange, making the tiger's markings monochromatic.
The tigers are very rare, and normally produced by the excessive inbreeding of small tiger populations in a secluded region.
*The so-called "white Siberian tigers" are actually crossbreeds of Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) with white Bengals.
Are white tigers dangerous to humans?
Of course white tigers are dangerous. They're tigers first and foremost. Carnivores, hunters and predators, usually weighing several hundred pounds. Big claws, big teeth. Even a juvenile would easily kill a human if it wanted to.
What does white Bengal tiger mean?
Bengal tigers are endangered wild cats and are the second largest subspecies of tiger in the world. Unlike lions, their fur coat is reddish orange, with vertical stripes that help them camouflage in long grasses, when hunting. The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.
Please see the related link below, to see a picture of a Bengal tiger..
that is a species of tigers
the royal bengal tiger.
How do white tigers affect the environment?
The white tiger would normally control the population of its prey, but facing extinction, the tigers prey will flourish and overpopulate. (: Hope that helps.
In what kind of habitat do white tigers live?
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Are white tigers a hunter or gatherer?
As a carnivore that eats its prey when caught, it is a hunter.
What are facts about white Bengal tigers?
White Bengal Tigers are Bengal tigers that are white with gray stripes. Most species of tigers have white individuals, but the most common are Bengals. White tigers once existed in the wild, but the last wild white tiger was seen in 1958. The genes that cause white tigers have vanished from wild populations as the have shrunken vastly in
recent decades.
However, a number of white tigers exist in captivity, the descendants of wild white tigers that were captured. In order for a tiger to be white, it has to have two copies of the gene for whiteness. This means that in order to be sure of getting a white tiger, breeders must breed two white tigers. This means that many breeders inbreed their white tigers in order to get more of the valuable white ones. This is much easier that trying to find unrelated white tigers to breed, but causes the animals to be inbred; the tigers have unusually large numbers of double-recessive genes, and little genetic variety. These white tigers are less healthy than non-inbred tigers and can have diseases, deformities, and decreased fertility.
However, there is nothing inherently unhealthy about tigers with the white gene; it does occur naturally. White tigers are unhealthy only because humans interfere with tiger breeding to produce more white tigers than would naturally occur. Some non-inbred white tigers do exist, as well as inbred orange tigers with health problems.
Because of the excessive inbreeding practiced on white tigers, some groups oppose the breeding of any white tigers. The opposition is usually grounds that it is unhealthy for them to exist, that they are bred at the expense of breeding healthy orange tigers, and that selective breeding for the white genes is detrimental to the genetic diversity of all captive tigers. Maintaining genetic diversity amount captive tigers is considered important because wild populations are declining and could vanish.
What are some of the adaptations of the white tiger that makes it survive in the wild?
I only know one and that is their strips on their makes it harder for their prey to see them so that would help them
What are white tigers sleeping habits?
A tiger will spend between 16 to 20 hours of the day resting/sleeping. The reasoning behind the amount of hours of rest/sleeping is that activity requires energy which inturns requires food. Therefore the more active the tiger is the more food it requires.
What kind of meat do White Tigers eat?
White Tigers are not a separate species. There are no wild white tigers. There has only ever been one wild White Tiger. It was captured and bred to normal tigers and bred back to produce more white tigers. All white tigers live in captivity and they are all descendants of that one white tiger. He was a Bengal Tiger. Bengal Tigers eat Cows, Oxen, Guar, Deer, Bear, as well as small animals and pets.
Are Snow White tigers becoming extinct?
Many times the term "Snow White Tiger" refers to the Siberian or Amur, but the Bengal also is known for "White Tiger". Most White Tigers are a color variable of the tiger, not an albinio or a special subspecies. More a very unusal, or rare color phase of the coat. They have blue eyes, a pink nose. They can range from white to light yellow to reddish yellow, with stripes that are brown or black. But White Tigers in the wild are very rare and the captive population is 133 Bengal White tigers in the world, and 67 Siberian in captivity. Considering the size of the gene pool, and given past experiences of inbreeding. The outlook is not a good one. Maybe with new advances in genetics research, there will be something to help these remaining captive tigers. Of course, there are the rare sitings of the whites in the wild, in the last 100 years 12 have been seen in their natural habitat.
What is the size and weight of the white tiger?
Since white tigers are only white color morphs of the Bengal, they can reach 500 pounds and be ten feet long for an adult male.
What is stronger a Siberian tiger or a white tiger?
A Siberian tiger is stronger because they are bigger and they eat better and more better prey then Bengal tigers.
Experts agree there is virtually no difference in the strength of these cats. Plus, the Bengal tiger has a better prey biomass than the Siberian.
Siberian tigers subsist mainly on red deer, wild boar, roe deer, with an occasional brown bear thrown in.
Bengal tigers feed on chital deer, sambhar deer, wild hog, elephant calves, rhino calves, water buffalo, gaur (Indian bison), monkeys, even the odd porcupine.
Both subspecies will sometimes take livestock.
