Enviromental Tigre Blanco

The White Tiger is the largest feline that still survive on our planet, being that the Siberian tiger in freedom comes to develop some 3158 kilograms, his body including the head reaches about three meters in length and are in grave danger extinction.

They currently live from Turkey to the Indochina peninsula and islands located south of the archipelago of Sunda, up to Siberia. This does not rise to the trees so heavy, but it is a great swimmer and loves the water when he has to, its basic color is reddish yellow with classic dark vertical stripes, but this species replaces the base color by the if blank holding dark fringes.

The white tiger is a species in serious danger of extinction, of which an estimated 210 are copies around the world and most of them in captivity. They are generally solitary animals but you can find them in groups of 3 or 4 animals.

These are a variation of the Bengal tiger, children of parents with a recessive gene that gives the white color in their skin, and it is very unusual to find one of these in the wild, have different shades of eye, but usually have blue, except for albinos have pink eyes eyes. White tigers are a variation of the Bengal tiger. White tigers are individual specimens of the ordinary tiger (Panthera tigris) with a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment in the normally orange fur, black stripes but not affected, pink nose, blue eyes.

It is among the largest in size and more fierce, even on the lion felines. A huge force can achieve jumps of over seven meters long and more than two high.

They live about 20 to 25 years. Tigers generally are 1.5 to 3 meters long and one an appeal, not counting the tail, which would add a meter average. Reaches a weight of between 200 and 360 kilograms. This is an animal in danger of extinction due to traffic that has made with its skin and bones, not so strange human habit of exhibiting it in captivity and because of ecological degradation.

Tigers are currently disappearing in nature. The main threats are:

Poaching of tigers

Habitat loss with consequent shortage of prey

The fragmentation of populations

deforestation and human beings. Poaching has caused the tiger is in danger of extinction.

The reasons that tigers are hunted by humans is its skin as it is required by the black market in large quantities to sell at high prices and certain body parts are used for traditional medicine in China, quenched victim of hunting furtive, environmental changes and population fragmentation. Poaching depletes the population of the most enigmatic feline.

Tiger enemies are many and powerful. Although it is illegal to kill a tiger poaching continues to claim the lives of hundreds of copies each year. Every day killed a tiger poachers in India which is where else is there. Their bodies are dismembered and bones, whiskers and tusks are sold on the black market for large sums of money. Many of the bodies they are intended to prepared traditional Chinese medicine, for which the tiger has special healing powers.

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