White Bengal Tiger Bathing is a photograph by Venetia Featherstone-Witty which was uploaded on July 18th, 2014.
White Bengal Tiger Bathing
RIP Namaste, recently gone to tiger heaven, formerly in the Hilo Zoo, Hawaii.The white tiger is a rare pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger,... more
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White Bengal Tiger Bathing
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Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Photograph - Photography
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RIP Namaste, recently gone to tiger heaven, formerly in the Hilo Zoo, Hawaii.The white tiger is a rare pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially in the former State of RewaWhite tigers are distinct for the normal coloration in that they lack the pheomelanin pigment that in normal tigers produces the orange color. They still produce the pigment eumelanin and hence are not considered albino. Compared to normal tigers without the white gene, white tigers tend to be somewhat bigger, both at birth and as fully grown adults.Kailash Sankhala, the director of the New Delhi Zoo in the 1960s, said "one of the functions of the white gene may have been to keep a size gene in the population, in case it's ever needed."
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July 18th, 2014
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