Bengal White Tiger Bathing, Hilo, Hawaii
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Bengal White Tiger Bathing, Hilo, Hawaii
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Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Photograph - Photography
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RIP Namaste, former resident of the Hilo Zoo, Hawaii.The white tiger is a rare pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially in the former State of Rewa.White tigers are distinct for the normal coloration in that they lack the pheomelanin pigment that in normal tigers produces the orange color. They still produce the pigment eumelanin and hence are not considered albino. Compared to normal tigers without the white gene, white tigers tend to be somewhat bigger, both at birth and as fully grown adults.Kailash Sankhala, the director of the New Delhi Zoo in the 1960s, said "one of the functions of the white gene may have been to keep a size gene in the population, in case it's ever needed."
FEATURED 10/31/21 in "Wildlife One A Day"
FEATURED 10/31/21 in "Collectors Gallery"
FEATURED 11/4/21 in "Animal Photographs"
FEATURED 11/4/21 in "The Grayscale Outdoors"
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July 18th, 2014
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Allan Van Gasbeck
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