Special Anatomical, Physiological or Behavioral Adaptations
The Bengal tiger in the Fort Worth zoo is a white female tiger from India. She has black stripes on her body. There is an interesting story to it. In India one of the royalties had killed a white tiger. Later four cubs of this dead tiger were found. They were the only four left in the world. All the white tigers in the world today are the descendants of these four cubs.
Characterstics of White Bengal Tiger of India
Tigers lead solitary lives, and the courtship period, and association between mother and cub is their only interaction and association. Tigers are entirely different in their hunting habits from lions, and hence they are mutually exclusive in their distribution.
Tigers rest during the day in the shade, and begin to hunt for food at dusk. They have keen eye sights and a sharp hearing that helps them stalk their prey. Tiger killings are split second affairs where the prey hardly has any chance of survival. Its formidable and retractile claws play a significant role in capturing and holding on to its prey.
Tigresses are devoted mothers who are very protective of their cubs. They look after their young till they are about two and a half years old.
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