Types of tigers

Different Types Of Tigers:

• There are five tiger subspecies including the Indian or Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) - it is a powerful animal with very distinct markings. they .breed at any time of the year.

• Siberian or Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) - It is the largest type of all tigers, with an average length of 2.8 meters. It is some what pale in colour having fever stripes and a longer and thicker coat in winter. They have their cubs during the spring.
  
  Sumatran tiger(Panthera tigris sumatrae)
  
  South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)
  
  Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)
  
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   Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica)
  
   Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaicus)
  
   Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgat)

White Tigers. 

• All the white tigers we know of are a color variation of Bengal tigers. White tigers are only born to parents that both carry the recessive gene for white coloring. Wild white tigers are very rare, and today they can only be seen in zoos.

• The white tigers are neither albinos (in which case they would have pink eyes), nor a separate species; they have chocolate stripes and blue eyes, although several variations in eye and stripe color are seen.

• The first mutant 'white' cub is believed to be the one trapped by the Maharaja of Rewa, who found it orphaned in the jungle in 1951. Named Mohan, the cub was later . mated to a normal-colored captive tigress who produced three litters with normal coloring.

• A few years later, Mohan mated with one of the offspring, producing the first litter of white cubs-these were to be the ancestors of others now in many zoos the world over.
  
  

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