White, Black & Golden Tigers

[Pckts]

(07-08-2014, 09:57 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote:

(05-08-2014, 09:28 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: Bengal tigers do not possess the white tiger gene, only siberians I believe. Any white tiger is also completely inbreed and never will it be a pure bred anything. So these are not "bengals"

 

These tigers are 100% Bengals, my friend, they are from India and only Indian tigers have the white gene. I think you probably made a mistake here, but don't worry, this is a small correction, I know you already know this. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

It is interesting to see that these tigers are very "light" in body size in comparison with the wild ones. Still, these white tigers are far more muscular than the orange ones in the background (females or subadults???).

Sontakke et al. (2009) are the only ones that have published an official male tiger average weights from captive Indian specimens. They calculate and average of 183.3 kg (range 165 - 210 kg) for these specimens. The "Bengal" tigers reported by KingT are probably all specimens of the "American tiger", after all, no Bengal has been proved 100% pure outside India.

Other thing that I noted is that the smaller male was the aggressor, however he get the worst of it, as the larger one put him down many times. it seems that aggressiveness is not everything in a fight. 

 

I posted on this page that I made a mistake and it is the Bengal who only carries the white gene.
All white are genetically inbreed, deformed and unnatural. Their sizes vary throughout, it doesn't matter if its a N. american Tiger or Indian Bengal, if they are white, every single one of their genes comes from Mohan. Every single one is genetically deformed in some way.

All of the captive weights used by King are pure bengals. (I believe)
N. American Tigers are different than Bengals, a N. American and most common tiger in the World, now, it's a mix between all tigers. Could be bengal/amur etc... Their bloodlines are too muddy because they were sold to breed, pretty much like a puppy mill.
Also, America did have many pure bred Bengals, Siberian, Sumatran etc.. Same with Europe.
Circuses brought wild specimans back from all over the world. They traveled by train from country to country, selling and buying cats  throughout time, most of the pure bred cats were sold and mated with different sub species, wether on accident or purpose. But I believe the captive cats on the table all have stud books that show their pure blood lineage. I'm sure king can confirm this because I didn't collect the info on the Captive table.

But I'm sure you already know all of this [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]  Reply