04 September 07 - 14:18White Tiger
White tigers are very rare in the jungle so you couldn’t find many. White Tigers are nearly extinct as there is not a lot of them left. A pure white tiger has no stripes and are completely white. In the wild white tigers live to about 10 to 15 years where in zoos they live as old as 20. White Tigers eat cattle, pigs baby elephants and sometimes even bears. Tigers keep their cubs for 2 to 3 years and by that time they can hunt and look after themselves.
White tigers are brilliant swimmers but they can’t climb as well. White Tigers hunt at night and relax in the day time. There are only about 5000 tigers left in the world. At the beginning of this century it is estimated that there were 100,000 wild tigers, today the number is less than 8,000. Simply put, tigers are disappearing in the wild. The main threats to tigers are poaching and habitat loss.
White Tiger males weigh up to 500 pounds and the females only weigh up to 250. A white tiger and many other tigers use there claws to scratch places to mark their territory. White tiger cubs are born blind and only weigh 1kg!
The head of a white tiger normally has a mark of a Wang or king.
I got this picture from wikipedia
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