White Bengal Tiger
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
White Bengal Tiger
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most numerous tiger subspecies.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.
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July 15th, 2014
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