Tiger cub facts-white tiger cub facts

Tiger cub facts or White tiger cub facts. White tiger aka Panthera Tigris, are a rare group of endangered species. They are being now conserved in various wildlife sanctuaries and it is said that less than a dozen have been seen in India in about a hundred years. White tigers are neither a subspecies or belong to albinos group. These are generally distributed throughout the Asian subcontinent, found mostly in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

They generally choose dense forests as their habitat with a remarkable water source like those of tropical deciduous forests, mangrove swamps. Out of an estimated 3.5 months of gestation period, three or four cubs at most are born. These are blind by birth but develop sight with age.

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These have blue eyes, a pink nose and creamy white fur. The darkness of the strip patterns varies from young to adults, light in young to deeper and darker in adults. No tigers have similar pattern of stripes on their bodies, just like the human fingerprints i.e.. one to one.

But why is the tiger white and not of the general orangey color? They don’t wear the glamorous white fur coat of PRADA! Ha! White tigers get their color due to the recessive gene in their body. It is because of the lack of pheomelanin pigment. A Bengal tiger with two dominant genes or one dominant gene and one recessive white gene is colored orange. Only a homogeneous recessive gene results in white tigers.

Even it is normal to find orange cubs in a litter of white tigers. Many people confuse the white Bengal tigers with the Siberian tigers due to their color but no, they aren’t the same, Siberian tigers are a bit paler than the white Bengal tigers.The white cubs are generally bigger than the orangey ones, both at the time of birth and after the developed age.

White tiger cubs are precious to the preservation community because of the fear of the extinction of their beautiful species in the near future. These cubs provide a soothing view because of their rare white color with the combination of glazing fur with beautiful strips on their furry little bodies, completely resembling their parents.

These cubs thus please the visions of many visitors when kept in a conserved park or sanctuary. These tigers spend a graceful time of their infant days as lovable cubs with their pack. The mother takes care of the entire pack of cubs. They feed on the milk of their mother for a long term which is about 1-2 years.

Thus their primary nutrition comprises of their mother's milk and a little mass of meat as hunted by the off bringers i.e., their mother, who generally takes care of the entire pack.

They seek to be one of the best managed pack of cubs among all other babies of wild creatures. After they reach a mature age of about a couple of years , the mother takes them on hunting so that they can be self dependent and become efficient in hunting and differentiating between their preys and animals from whom they are in danger.

Hence they learn the attributes of hunting from their mother within a short lot of time. They represent a proper lead of family life in a group in wild environment. These cubs grow quite quickly in comparison to the cubs of other cat species and efficiently survive on themselves. They are really a contemptuous pack to be left unnoticeable.

Because of the extreme rarity of the white tigers, the captive breeding was limited to the small number of white tigers. But today the captivated tigers numbers have risen to a remarkable extent. It has also been possible to expand the white-gene pool by out crossing white tigers with unrelated orange tigers and then using the cubs to produce more white tigers.

Today any white tiger can relate to ‘Mohan’ as its daddy or daddy’s daddy. A few number of tigers were captivated but were not crossed, unlike Mohan, with other tigress, and again with its own daughter, for more white litters. So, some way or the other ‘mohan’ tends to become the ancestor of any white Bengal tiger alive in captivity. The white tigers Ranjit, Bharat, Priya and Bhim were all out crossed, in some instances to more than one tiger.

Out crossing need not be done to produce more white cubs by continuous inbreeding in the long run. Out crossing is a technique of introducing fresh blood into the white strain. The New Delhi Zoo had once lend better zoos their white tigers for out crossing, consequently the government demanded the zoos to return the New Delhi zoo their white tigers and their orange offsprings.

Siegfried & Roy had brought up few out crosses and they offered to work with the Indian government in the 1980s to create a healthier and a better strain of white tigers. Reports reported in Indian government considerably accepting the offer; despite that, India had an embargo on out crossing or breeding white tigers after the breeder cubs were born with arched backs and clubbed feet, necessitating euthanasia.

The white tigers are prone to various genetic defects like kidney problems, crooked backbone, twisted neck, club foot and strabismus, a condition of cross eyes.

The only Bengal white tiger reported to be a subject of strabismus was Rewati, Mohini’s daughter. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums barred member zoos from breeding white tigers, after the out crossing and inbreeding resulted in genetically defective cubs, white lions and king cheetahs in a English paper adopted by the board of directors of the association in July 2011. The mesmerizing white tigers are rare, and trophy hunting and exotic pet trade have added as a cherry on the cake to their rareness.

Man was and still is a major threat to their class, if not man, his activities pose a threat to the endangered species. These precious class of creatures should be preserved and cultured more for their continuation as a beautiful piece of organisms on our magnanimous planet. I hope that white tiger cub facts would help you.