White, Black & Golden Tigers

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(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.
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