The Terai Tiger

[sanjay]

Well, if you will see this imag first time, then you will probably say a HUGE MALE TIGER, but it is wrong.
Tiger in this picture taken by Amit Mishra, is a female tigress from Katerniaghat , Uttar Pradesh, India. So she is huge ? Correct ? But according to Amit, She is pregnant or may be in lactation. According to him this make her look larger than normal tigress. One more thing, Some expert believe that tiger in this area have some genes of Siberian tiger.

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According to a comment on this post-
Someone said this tiger resembles Siberians. Katarniaghat is part of the Dudhwa Tiger reserve. This could give some credence to the theory that Billy Arjan Singh's experiment inadvertently introduced Siberian tiger genes into Bengal Tigers. Singh's Tara was a bengal/Siberian hybrid and she bred and had numerous offspring in Dudhwa. Possible that his critics were right!!


Amit replied -
before making this tiger a Siberian gene tiger please understand the following - the angle of the shot and the fact that this was a female which might have been in a late stage of pregnancy , has made her look abnormally huge. Please set aside this Siberian Gene theory and enjoy the photograph.

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Credit to: Amit Mishra, Picture taken on January 2011 Reply