The White Tiger

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Amazing Facts about
White Tigers
By: katrina
• Name of Animal:
White Tiger.
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammal
• Order: Carnivora
• Family: Felidae
• Genus: Panthera
• Species: Bengal
Tigers
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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