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As tigers in Asia often live in close proximity to humans, tigers have killed more people than any other big cat species. Between 1876 and 1912, tigers killed 33,247 people in British India. [6] Man-eating tigers have been a recurrent problem in India, especially in Kumaon, Garhwal and the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bengal. There, even ...
A captive white tiger at the Singapore Zoo. The white tiger, or bleached tiger, is a leucistic morph of the tiger.It is occasionally reported in the Indian wilderness. It has the typical black stripes of a tiger, but its coat is otherwise white or near-white, and it has blue eyes.
The white tiger has a white background colour with sepia-brown stripes. The golden tiger is pale golden with reddish-brown stripes. The snow-white tiger is a morph with extremely faint stripes and a pale sepia-brown ringed tail. White and golden morphs are the result of an autosomal recessive trait with a white locus and a wideband locus ...
Zoo officials said they believe the employee was attacked while trying to move a male tiger from its exhibition cage to its night-time cage. Apparent white tiger attack kills keeper at Japan zoo ...
The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Hal and Roger attempt to track down a rare white elephant in Africa's Mountains of the Moon. Safari Adventure: 1966 Hal and Roger join warden Mark Crosby in Tsavo National Park, where wildlife poaching is a major problem. Lion Adventure: 1967 Hal and Roger must help save the people of Mtito Andei from a man-eating lion. Gorilla Adventure: 1969
The Bengal tiger's coat is yellow to light orange, with stripes ranging from dark brown to black; the belly and the interior parts of the limbs are white, and the tail is orange with black rings. The white tiger is a recessive mutant, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially in the former State of Rewa.
Crushed tiger bones added to wine, served as a Taiwanese general tonic. The feet of a tiger, when dipped in palm oil and hung in front of a door, are said to diminish the likelihood of evil spirits from entering. Tiger's skin is said to cure a fever caused by ghosts. To use it effectively, the user must sit on the tiger's skin, but beware.