Friday, March 9, 2012
White Tigers find a new home
Rewa Maharaja Martand Singh, a tiger breeder, fight laid eyes on this male white tiger during his trip, in 1950, to Govindgarh jungle. He searched do for months and months until he captured the first living white tiger in the wild.
This breeder, along with official veterinary experts bred the white tiger with regular female tigers with no luck. In the last year of the tiger's life, 1958, this breeder successfully bred a new group of white tigers.
The white tigers have a larger body and bigger features but the Bengal tigers are superior in agility. In early 1800s white tigers were in Bengal, Bihar and Assam, with 30,000 tigers in India every 1 in 10,000 normal tiger born is white only because of mutation of the color gene.
This white tiger was the last wild white tiger but his genes are helping to re create the endangered sub-species in captivity.
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That is interesting that only 1 in 10,000 tigers are white, similar to the ratio of albino people.
ReplyDeleteThat's nice to know. I had no idea that they only found one white tiger then Bred him to make more. I didn't know that white tigers have a bigger body and features. It's also interesting that one in every ten thousand tigers born is white.
ReplyDeleteTigers, to me, are truly some of the most beautiful creatures on this planet. They're I just so big and majestic. They're tough and they don't let anything get in their way. It would be awesome to see a white tiger. Is this breed of tiger naturally born? Or is it an albino tiger?
ReplyDeleteIt was thought that the white tiger was an albino tiger but when they could successfully breed the tigers white the ruled the albino part out. The. Have boiled it down to being a certain defect in the genes of the tigers and when mated the tigers can successfully make colored as well as white tigers.
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