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Why do tigers have spots on them?

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Albino tigers don't have any stripes, they are completely White. Even if you shaved them they wouldn't have the stripes marks that other tigers have.

White tigers are the ones that have black stripes. They can also have grey or chocolate colored stripes. They white coloring because both parents carried the recessive gene.

White tigers do not blend in well with their environment, so it is not for camouflage.

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Because that is the way tigers were created. Bengal tigers have stripes to help them blend into their environment, when hunting and to hide from humans. Not all tigers are orange with black stripes, there are also white tigers with black stripes

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Most of their prey is colorblind, so the orange would blend into the grass around them and the prey would not notice until it was too late.

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They are striped differently because they are born like that. No two tigers are the same and are like fingerprints.

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be cause GOD made them that WAY SO WE COULD ENJOY THEIR BEAUTY

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Tigers don't have spots, they have stripes that they use for camouflage.

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to blend in with there surroundings

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