Biography of white tigers

White tiger. Who is he and where. But most likely, few people wondered what kind of wild cats are and are white tigers in the wild or is it a person’s creation? Let's try to figure it out. The existence of the White Tiger is known for a very, very long time. In ancient India, it was believed that meeting with the white tiger could bring enlightenment, and the murder of an unusual beast is a series of troubles and death.

In the wild, white tigers were extremely rare. Over the past 60 years, neither scientists nor hunters of the White Tiger have met in nature. The last time the White Tiger was seen in the distant year. Unfortunately, he was not only seen, but also shot. Until today, only white Bengal Tigers Panthera Tigris Tigris, who lived and probably still live in the wild, are known to science. It is believed that the white tigerok is born with a probability of 1 to this innate mutation, but the white tigers are not albinos, as indicates that there are dark strips on their fur.

In the wild, probably white tigers were completely healthy animals, not much different from their ordinary red counterparts. But in captivity, a completely different situation ... Today, in captivity, lives from the White Bengal Tiger and all thanks to one person and one tiger, respectively: it all started since the distant year, when during the hunt for tigers with the participation of Maharaja Reva Sri Martand Singh was discovered by the logs of the tiger, in which there were four tigers - three red and one white.

The redheads are tiger, alas, they were put on the skins, and the white was settled in the Maharaja palace and gave him the name Mohan. The tiger quickly became a favorite and the main pride of the ruler. Maharaja hoped that this white tiger should sooner or later be born a white tigerok, but for several years all the kittens were born the most ordinary - red.

A few years later, the tiger was brought with his own daughter. As a result of inbreeding, the tigers gave birth to several kittens, among which one was white. They say that until this moment no one saw Maharajus so happy. A few more years have passed and so many white tigers have already lived in the palace that some of them decided to sell. In the early xs, several white tigers were outside of India, in particular in the USA and Great Britain.

Today, white tigers are found in many zoos around the world, and also lives in private nurseries, primarily in the United States. Thus, absolutely all the white tigers are the descendants of the Mohan Tiger, who lived in the Maharaja Palace. For the birth of a white tiger, you need a white tiger and a tiger, which is a child of a white tiger. Also, a white tigerok can be born in two red tigers, provided that they are both or at least one of them is a child of a white tiger.

From all this it follows that all the white tigers are the result of the incest, which, of course, cannot but affect the offspring. White tigers are smaller than their red brothers and sisters. They often have oblique eyes, curved legs, a weak spine. At the same time, according to observations, white tigers grow faster and grow larger than ordinary Bengal tigers.

As I already said, only representatives of the Bengal subspecies are white, but the Amur tigers are often found in zoos with black stripes. But there are no white Amur tigers in the wild. More precisely, there was not a single documented case of a meeting with the White Amur Tiger. As for the white Amur tigers living in captivity, this is not a purebred Amur tiger, but a mixture of the Amur and Bengal tiger with a congenital white mutation.