Amur and Bengal Tigers can have longer cheek manes....

Amur and Bengal Tigers can have longer cheek manes....

The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger, Siberian tiger and hybrids between the two.

POPULATION:
Today there are no white tigers in the wild. The last one was shot by a trophy hunter in 1958. There are 200 white tigers in captivity, the product of nine generations of inbreeding.

OWNER:
Siegfried & Roy were a duo of German-American magicians and entertainers, best known for their appearances with white lions and white tigers.
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TIMELINE:

Jun 16, 1820
First sighting of a white tiger
one of the earliest records a white tiger was displayed at Exeter Change

Feb 9, 1915
First white tiger captured
The first "modern" case of a white tiger being captured was in 1915. He was caught by the local maharajah who kept the tiger until its death.

May 27, 1951
Last spotting of white tiger in wild
The last spotting of a white Bengal tiger in the wild was in Rewa (Central India) on 27, May 1951. This male tiger was captured by the Maharaja Martand Singh of Rewa and named Mohan - it is from this animal that all white tigers in captivity today are descended.

Sep 14, 1960
First white tiger in United States
In 1960, the very first white tiger ever to come to the United States was given to President Dwight D. Eisenhower by The Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. The blue-eyed beauty was named Mohini of Rewa, and she went to a zoo right away.

Aug 13, 1973
Project Tiger
The first project established to help save the white tigers around the world. It started with 9 tiger reserves and now has 27.

Mar 10, 2002
White tiger attack
a 600-pound white bengal tiger, and Las Vegas showmen Siegfried, left, and Roy Horn, in this March, 2002 Horn was attacked by on Friday night during a sold-out performance.

Oct 3, 2003
White tiger attack #2
Roy Horn, of the circus act Siegfried and Roy, was severely injured by a white tiger onstage during a show at The Mirage in Las Vegas on 3 October 2003. The tiger bit him in the neck, causing massive loss of blood and partial paralysis

May 27, 2009
White tiger attack #3
A white tiger mauled and killed one of its keepers at a wildlife park in New Zealand Wednesday in front of visitors. An animal keeper was mauled to death on Wednesday by a rare white tiger at the Zion Wildlife Gardens in New Zealand while visitors watched in horror. The animal similar to this one was one of only about 120 white tigers in the world.

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Feb 14, 2010
Chinese new year
February 14, 2010 is the Chinese New Year bringing in the Year of the Tiger. This is the Year of the metal Tiger which is symbolized by a white Tiger.

FUN AND INTERESTING FACTS:

White tigers are not a separate subspecies of tiger. There is only one tiger species and only two recognized subspecies in the world—the Continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). The color of the white tiger's fur is the result of a genetic mutation called leucism.

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The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid called the tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines.

SIZE:
The largest ligers often grow to lengths of more than 3.3 metres (10.8 feet) and weigh more than 400 kg (900 pounds); however, there are reports of some individuals weighing more than 1,000 kg (1 metric ton [about 2,200 pounds]).

HEIGHT:
about 4.5 ft tall

Height-wise, an adult liger is typically about 4.5 ft tall at the shoulder and 6 ft tall at the tips of the ears when standing. To sustain such a large body, the liger requires an average of 25 lbs of meat per day—more than double the diet of a typical lion or tiger in captivity.

CHARACTERISTICS:
The liger is the largest of the world's felines, known to grow up to 12 feet tall when standing on their hind legs. The liger is an enormous animal with a large muscular body and broad head. Ligers tend to have sandy or dark yellow fur which is covered in distinctive faint stripes inherited from their mother.

video by @Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge
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