White or snowy tiger

White Tiger

The Bengal Tiger, the Snow Panther, the White Tiger, the names and the factions are always the same as the orange tiger, where the white tigers of the orange tigers
The number of wild tigers is 5,000 to 7,000, most of them in the Indian subcontinent in 18 protected areas in Bengal, India and six in Nepal and Bangladesh, which account for two-thirds of the number of wild tigers
The number of white tigers is estimated at only about 200, most of them in animal parks across the world
The white tigers are descended from eight factions, three of them extinct and five surviving
Most of the Siberian white tiger species are in Russia, southern Malay jungles, Indonesia and India

The first registration of the white tiger was in India during the period of the Mongol rule 1556-1605

The first hunt for the white tiger was in 1915 by a local Maharaja who kept the tiger until his death

The second hunting case was in Riwa City on May 27, 1951, when Maharaja Chari Martind was in the city

He wanders through the forests of Bandhavgirh in central India and his entourage, where a female red tiger is seen

With four cubs and one of them was white

And they followed him after a long effort and he was called Mohan and since that tiger descends the origins of all white tigers who are in captivity

In 1960, in Rio, a two-year-old white tiger was sold to a US businessman for $ 10,000 and donated to the National Zoo in Washington DC

On December 5, 1960, the tigers appeared in the White House garden with then US President Eisenhower.

The tigers were used to try to breed more white tigers (with normal orange tigers) but their offspring had different physical disabilities.

The scarcity of white tigers and their descent from the orange tigers is due to a genetic abnormality in the orange tigers' pregnancy, where a recessive allele is lacking in the genetic code.

Information about White Tiger Life

The eyes are blue and the nose is a snowy fur

They are solitary animals that meet only in the mating season, and mating is non-seasonal

The gestation period is from 95 to 110 days and often a female tiger is born from 2 to 6 cubs

Because they are the uniqueness of the print, they do not hunt in groups such as lions, but hunt and eat individually and feed on pigs, cows and deer. They can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time! An amount that excludes eating more food for several days and the white tiger 30 of the sharp teeth, ranging from 2.5 to 3 inches

Measurement: Tiger length is about 1.4-2.8 m. Tail length 90-120 cm

Cubs: Tiger cubs are born blind and weigh about 1 kg, and live on the milk for 6-8 weeks before the females begin to take them to learn to hunt for feeding where the fangs start from the age of 16-18 months

Weight: Siberian tigers are the heaviest strain, weighing 225 kg and usually males are heavier than females. The lighter weight in Sumatra weighs about 110 kg males and females about 90 kg

Climbing swimmer skillful slow enemy .. weak ability to hide

White tigers usually inhabit an area of ​​about 10 to 30 square miles where there are enough prey, water and shelter to survive.

While the Siberian tiger needs an area of ​​up to 110 miles

Age: White tigers live in the wild for about 10 to 15 years while tigers in zoos usually survive from 16 to 20 years old.

White tigers are not a commodity for sale and purchase, which is difficult to acquire because of their scarcity and exposure to extinction

But the price of one is sixty thousand US dollars

On the other hand, it generates a good income for zoos from the rest of the tigers