Amazing Facts about White Tigers By: katrina. Name of Animal: White Tiger. Phylum: Chordata Class:...
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Transcript of Amazing Facts about White Tigers By: katrina. Name of Animal: White Tiger. Phylum: Chordata Class:...
• Name of Animal: White Tiger.
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammal• Order: Carnivora• Family: Felidae• Genus: Panthera• Species: Bengal
Tigers
CLASSIFICATIONS
• The White Tiger is a big and strong creatures that can weigh up to 300 kg.
• There fur color is black and white. The White Tiger is covered with fur, there top speed is 96 kph.
• The White Tigers are carnivore so they eat all kinds of meat.
• The White Tigers main prey are deer, cattle and wild boar the colors of their eyes are brown, blue and black.
APPEARANCE
• The white tiger are found in a variety of habitat including dense jungle and mangrove swamp.
• They are mostly found in some place on India.
• The white tigers are also found in some places in china.
• It mostly like to live in jungle that has swamps.
Habitat
• The White Tiger are solitary animals. They allow large predators to sneak up on prey more effectively.
• In the dense jungle, although the white tiger is not nocturnal, they do the majority of their hunting at night as this also helps them hunt better.
• White tigers have incredible hearing and sight which, along with their stealth helps them when hunting in the jungle and in the dark.
• White tigers habits is that they like to hunt in the night and catch there main prey.
• When the white tigers are done hunting or there tired they like to sleep on a rock near a swamp and sleep there.
Habits and adaptations
• In order for a white tiger to be produced, both of it’s parents must carry the gene male and female.
• White tigers are attracted to one another by their roars and scent marks.
• The female white tigers give birth up to 5 cubs which are blind weigh roughly 1 kg each, and have either white or orange fur.
• The white tiger cubs sucks on the milk from there mother and begins to eat meat that she caught for them.
• When they are around 2 months old and are weaned four months later. The white tiger cubs begin to accompany their mother hunting and eventually leave her.
Life Cycle
• The White Tiger ( also known as the white Bengal tiger) is a subspecies of tiger found through the Indian subcontinent.
• Although the range of the white tiger is historically very large, these animals are incredibly rare as their coloration is dependent on a defective, recessive gene that is passed on from their parents.
• Over the past couple of century the white tiger has become even rarer in the wild due to hunting or capture for the exotic pet trade.
Did You Know……