White+Tiger

~Jenny Sengmany~
This White tiger is known as ** //Panther// **** //a tigris tigris.// ** These tigers are found from the frozen Thundra of the Soviet Far Eas   t, south to the humid jungles of Malaya and Indonesia, and west to the hot hardwood forest of India.The White tigers are generally the biggest cats. Those of the white tigers who survive in the wild, live form 10 to 15 years while the tigers who live in the zoos survive from 16 to 20 years. There are four other sub-species of tigers: Siberian, South China, Indochinese, and Sumatran. There are approximately 5,000 to 7,000 tigers left in the wild.


 * ~ [|Scientific classification] ||
 * Kingdom: || [|Animalia] ||
 * Phylum: || [|Chordata] ||
 * Class: || [|Mammalia] ||
 * Order: || [|Carnivora] ||
 * Family: || [|Felidae] ||
 * Genus: || //[|Panthera]// ||
 * Species: || //**P. tigris**// ||

To the right: Two white tigers playing in the river.

Ecology

The White tiger don't usually hunt in social groups, like the lions, they are generally by themselves, the female with her cubs. White tigers are carnivores, which they hunt for predators. In the wild tigers wo uld hunt at night for pigs, cattle, and deer. After a big meal of 40 pounds of meat, tigers will not eat for several days. They are slow runners, but they can be secretly enough to catch any prey in sight. Tigers can adapt to special places, to help survive in the wild. They can live in a steamy hot jungle as well as icy cold forest and bushy land.

To the left: This picture shows how tall and masculine the White tiger can be. Right: White tigers teeth, are sharp.

Physiology

The White tiger can reach up to 13 ft. in size, from nose to tail and weighs 500 -700 pounds, which the females size and weight are smaller. Their coats protects them form the cold and hot weather; their stripes help camouflage, in tall grass and trees. Having extremely strong jaws and 30 large teeth ranging from 2 to 3 inches. A strong sense of smell and good eyesight helps these tigers hunt for prey, also excellent swimmers, to help reach prey that can swim away. The Modern population includes both pure Bengal's and hybrid Bengal-Siberian, but not unclear whether the recessive gene. White tigers stay at a distance, except when females are caring for their young; the young ones stay with their parents for two to three years, until thmedia type="youtube" key="LLd87iOU0wk" height="272" width="336" align="right"e young tiger is ready to hunt and feed for themselves. Young tiger cubs are born blind and weigh about 2 to 3 pounds, they live on milk for 6-8 years, before the mother tiger begins taking them to hunt for prey.

To the left: Female White tiger getting out of the river. Right: Two White tigers mating

Descendants of Mohan

The mother and her four cubs, including Mohan, were not the first to appear. Shootings were common between 1892 and 1922 in Orissa, Upper Assam, Bilaspur, Cooch Behar and Poona; fifteen White tigers were killed in the region of Bihar alone. Some of the captures were rewarded with a trophy displayed in the Calcutta Museum. In 1951 there was a report of a sighting of a female and four cubs, which were white.Maharaha Shri Martand Singh, Highness of Rewa, found a white male cub, whose mother had been killed. After capturing the cub, Singh an media type="youtube" key="gZwIgCT2st4" height="338" width="419" align="left" d his crew returned, with the cub, to his palace and named him "Mohan." Mohan reached adulthood and then was bred with a normal tiger, "Begum." Mohan and Begum produced three litters of cubs but none were white tigers. Later on, Mohan was bred to one of his own daughters, Radha, from the second litter he helped produced and four white cubs were born. Using this method, the white specimens were able to reproduce at the rate of one for every three orange tigers. Breeding father and daughter was a big success and continues until this very day.

Mohan climbing a tree.

Reference

http://www.indiantiger.org/white-tigers/white-bengal-tiger.html

http://www.wild-india.com/IndianAnimals/white-tiger.html

http://a-z-animals.com/animals/white-tiger/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tiger

http://www.tigerhaven.org/page.asp?page=5&p=Education%20and%20Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_white_tigers