Bengal white tigers: how do they look like?
Bengal white tigers are beautiful animals, they have white fur and mostly blue eyes. They are rare creatures and hard to find.
Facts about their appearance (eyes)
Bengal white tigers have blue eyes, but why?
Grrr…
Because the gene for blue eyes is linked to the gene for the white fur. They are also cross-eyed, because of the same gene that causes the white coat, it causes the optic nerve to be weird to the wrong side of the brain, thus all white tigers are cross-eyed.
Where are they found?
Bengal white tigers are found in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, in the Sundarbans region and especially in the former state of Rewa.
What’s their habitat?
They live in tropical jungles, mangrove swamps and grasslands, their habitat would include plenty of freshwater nearby.
What about their behavior and lifestyle?
Although the white tigers are not nocturnal, they carry out most of their hunting at night as this also helps them to hunt more successfully. They also have incredible hearing and sight which, along with their stealth, helps them when hunting in the jungle in the dark?
How do they hunt?
The white tiger is an apex predator in its environment, hunting its prey by stalking it stealthily in the darkness of night. The white tiger primarily hunts large herbivorous animals including deer, wild boar, cattle and goats that feed both in the jungle and on its outskirts.
How rare are they?
White tigers are a very rare type of tigers. They’re very rare in the wild for a reason, possibly as few as 1 in 10,000 wild tigers’ births.
What’s their population?
There are currently several hundred white tigers in captivity across the globe, with about one hundred of those being in India alone.
Are they endangered?
Unfortunately, white tigers are on the endangered list. If there are Bengal tigers carrying the gene, their white counterparts will not technically be extinct. However, the possibility of naturally occurring white cubs becomes rarer and rarer as Bengal numbers decline.
FACTS:
White fur is a rare genetic mutation…
White fur makes it harder to survive…
White tigers have blue eyes…
white tigers have crossed eyes…
Sources: google Wikipedia
