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  2. Tiger's eye - Wikipedia

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    Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

  3. White tiger - Wikipedia

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    Some tigers compensate by crossing their eyes. When the neurons pass from the retina to the brain and reach the optic chiasma, some cross and some do not, so that visual images are projected to the wrong hemisphere of the brain. White tigers cannot see as well as normal tigers and suffer from photophobia, like albinos. [21]

  4. Four Symbols - Wikipedia

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    In the tomb, labeled M45, immediately adjacent to the remains of the main occupant to the east and west were found mosaics made of clam shells and bones forming images closely resembling the Azure Dragon and White Tiger, respectively. [1] The modern standard configuration was settled much later, with variations appearing throughout Chinese history.

  5. Cultural depictions of tigers - Wikipedia

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    The tiger symbol of Chola Empire was later adopted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the tiger became a symbol of the unrecognised state of Tamil Eelam and Tamil independence movement. [27] The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh. [28] The Malaysian tiger is the national animal of Malaysia. [29]

  6. Tiger - Wikipedia

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    [47] [49] The ears are rounded and the eyes have a round pupil. [47] The snout ends in a triangular, pink tip with small black dots, the number of which increase with age. [50] The tiger's skull is robust, with a constricted front region, proportionally small, elliptical orbits, long nasal bones and a lengthened cranium with a large sagittal crest.

  7. The Rarest Eye Color in the World: What It Is and Why

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    With brown eyes taking an overwhelming lead, all of the other eye colors have lower percentages. According to WorldAtlas , 8-10 percent of the world's population have blue eyes.

  8. Golden tiger - Wikipedia

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    Golden tiger in Buffalo Zoo. All golden tabby tigers in captivity seem traceable to a white tiger called Bhim, [3] a white son of a part-white Amur tiger named Tony. Tony is considered to be a common ancestor of all white tigers in North America. Bhim was a carrier of the wide band gene and transmitted this to some of his offspring.

  9. Dichromacy - Wikipedia

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    The resulting color vision is simpler than typical human trichromatic color vision, and much simpler than tetrachromatic color vision, typical of birds and fish. A dichromatic color space can be defined by only two primary colors. When these primary colors are also the unique hues, then the color space contains the individuals entire gamut. In ...