1.) White tigers
Scientific name: Panthera Tigris
The white tiger (also known as the Bengal tiger) is about 3 meters long, and weighs approximately 180-285 kg (400-569 LB). It’s coat lies flatter than that of the Siberian tiger, the tawny color is richer and the stripes are darker.
White tigers are white colored bengals, they are not albinos and they are not a separate subspecies of tigers.
They have blue eyes, a pink nose, and creamy white furr covered with chocolate colored stripes. White tigers are born to tigers that carry the unusual gene needed for white coloring. Wild white tigers are rare species.
White tigers are born to Bengal tigers that carry an unusual gene needed for white coloring. The White Tiger is a good swimmer, but a very poor climber.
They may be slow runners, but they are stealthy enough to catch any prey in their sights. Because they are solitary animals, they mostly hunt at night.
The other four sub-species of tiger are Siberian, South China, Indochinese, and Sumataran. There are only approximately 5,000 to 7,400 tigers left in the wild.
It is belief that if you are born in the Chinese year of the tiger you are unusually lucky. Let’s hope that some of this luck rubs off on the white tiger before it’s too late. Let's try to protect and preserve their existence on earth.
There are only around 200 of the white tigers left in the world. White tigers are an Asian species, found from the frozen tundra of the Soviet Far East, south to the humid jungles of Malaya and Indonesia, and west to the hot, hardwood forests of India. There are five living subspecies; three others are already extinct. Current estimates put the world population of wild tigers at about 5,000-7,000, the most numerous race being the Bengal race, distributed among some 18 tiger reserves and sanctuaries of India (and a half-dozen in Nepal and Bangladesh), accounting for over two-thirds of all wild tigers.
Tigers are a protected species all over the world. Even though it's completely illegal to hunt them, people are still slaying these beautiful creatures.
Hunters are the predator of white tigers. They are killed for their hides. Poachers can sell their coat on the black market, as with any tiger, but if it is from a "White Tiger" the demand is much greater. Also, most of the teeth, claws, organs, and bones will be sold for "Chinese Traditional Medicines" or used to make other artifacts. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_White_Tigers_being_killed
White tigers lived in the wild in the jungle of Mainland Southeastern Asia and in Central and Southern India.
Although there have been around a dozen reports of wild white tigers being seen in India in the last one hundred years it is also believed that the chances of any wild white tigers still existing today to be extremely unlikely.
White tigers in captivity can be seen in zoos all around the world. Tigers mainly live across asia.
Siberian white tigers have their habit in the tundra (of Siberia, of course!)
Well. white tiger dont have it's specific teritory. white tiger is simply due to unbalance genetically. white tiger is not a separate species of the tiger. So white tiger will found where other tiger are found. but white tiger is hardly found in wild because the genetic disbalance cause rarely, many white tiger are made in zoo by special breeding, and this is done to attract people toward zoo. white tiger is generally less immune and may cause some disease in compare to normal tiger.
As like white tiger there is also the golden tiger. this is also the same case of the genetic disbalance. so both white and golden tiger are not the seprate species but nothing more than genetic disbalance..
White tigers are very rarely found in the wild. In about 100 yeas only 12 white tigers have been seen in the wild habitats of India. They are almost extinct and most of the ones living are in captivity, mainly in zoos. This specific tiger is neither an albino or a seperate subspecies of the tiger. They are simply white colored and have black stripes that makes them special. It has blue eyes and a pink nose. It also has prestine white colored fur. The white tiger is born to a bengal tiger that has the recessive gene needed for white coloring. A pure white tiger has no stripes and are completely white in color.
Tigers usually dwell in an area from about 10 to 30 square miles where there is enough prey, cover/shelter and water to support them. Territory mainly depends upon the amount of prey which is available. The more concentrated the prey the smaller is the area that a tiger needs to survive.
Tigers do not hunt in social groups like lions. They are usually solitary animals. In the wild, tigers would eat pig, cattle and deer. They can eat as much as 40 pounds of meat at one time! After such a big meal a tiger will not eat again for several days. White Tigers possesss 30 large teeth ranging from 2.5 to 3 inches.
White tigers in the wild live for about 10 to 15 years while tigers in zoos usually survive 16 and 20 years.
