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Golden tiger. The golden tiger's coat is lighter than that of a normal tiger. A golden tiger, sometimes called a golden tabby tiger, is a Bengal tiger with a colour variation caused by a recessive gene. Like White tigers and Black tigers, it is a colour form and not a separate subspecies. Known for its blonde or pale-golden color and red-brown ...
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, respectively.
A tiger attacking a Sambar deer in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. The Bengal tiger is a carnivore and prefers hunting large ungulates such as gaur, sambar, chital, barasingha, water buffalo, nilgai, serow and takin. Medium-sized prey includes wild boar, Indian hog deer, Indian muntjac and northern plains gray langur.
Wildlife photographer Gaurav Ramnarayanan snapped a photo of an unusual golden tiger in Kaziranga National Park, India, last month. But the tiger’s presence in the park might not be a good thing.
The South China tiger is the smallest tiger in mainland Asia but bigger than the Sumatran tiger. Males measure from 230 to 265 cm (91 to 104 in), and weigh 130 to 175 kg (287 to 386 lb). Females are smaller and measure 220 to 240 cm (87 to 94 in), and weigh 100 to 115 kg (220 to 254 lb).
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.
Salminus orbignyanus Valenciennes, 1850. Salminus brasiliensis ( dourado, dorado, golden dorado, river tiger or jaw characin) is a large, predatory characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South America. [ 2] Despite having Salminus in its name, the dorado is not related to any species of salmon, [ 3] nor to the saltwater ...
Range in the late 1800s. The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China [ 1] and possibly North Korea. [ 2] It once ranged throughout the Korean Peninsula, but currently inhabits mainly the Sikhote-Alin mountain region in southwest Primorye Province ...