Tuesday 1 March 2011

Lovely!


Three white tiger cubs , one of the rarest and most admired in nature, were born at the Lisbon Zoo. They are two females and one male children of one couple in the existing park. Contrary to what some people think, the white tigers are not albino, nor a subspecies of tiger. The hair colour is due to a recessive gene, when both parents are carriers of the gene responsible for light-colored coat. Their coloring is more intense in winter, as an adaptation to cold, bringing out blue eyes, pink nose and creamy white with brown lists.

The gestation period of the WhiteTigers is 102 to 112 days. Calves nurse for three to six months and accompany the mother for two to three years, learning the techniques of hunting for its future survival as adults lonely. Because of its white coat that does not give the appropriate camouflage for their survival in the wild, white tigers, were for centuries the target of poaching that led to its extinction in the wild.

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