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lol because the tiger is jumping it looks huge
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a golden tabby tiger..
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Wow this is very neat prespective, tigers are big but there not THAT big.
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They actually can get that big. o3o; They're pretty big animals. xD
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Oh my God I had no idea they were THAT big! It's kind of odd. I've seen tigers with people before but this guy (or girl?) is huge!
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This reminds me of a pic of a man handling a rattle snake. Since the snake was closer to the camera than the man, he appeared several feet longer than he actually is. Amazing how perspective does that.
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^^ Above said with all the respect necessary to the afore mentioned "peons", aka people who have the guts to deal with a half ton beast armed with teeth and claws.
Luls aside, that is an impressive tiger who utterly dwarfs anyone in size. Even an adult male.
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You sure it's a tiger? It looks like a hybrid between lion and tiger (I don't know the name in english, just in french)...
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It's a golden/tabby tiger. They're very rare.
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Generally people just call them Ligers.
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Simply stunning animal. Looks like it could jump that incloser if it wanted to
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Sin palabras!! Esta si que corta la respiraciΓ³n!!
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Whoa... just how tall, would you say, he is on his hind legs?
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Beautiful picture. I bet he's a very healthy cat 
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Thanks. Yeah, all of ours get a lot of exercise and enrichment...he's definitely fit!
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You're welcome! I think he gets all things he needs and perhaps even more so he's happy, too
Btw, I read your discussion with that freedom-loving person and you have a point there. The tiger is lucky to have someone who cares about him. I appreciate your work and it's important to show people these wonderful animals so that they get an impression about them and hopefully want to save them, too. That's very important.
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that....is one bigggg kitty my dear. Woah Golden tabby you say?
are they....rare? cuz ive never seen or heard of em.
sooo beautiful tho.
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Yes, there are probably less than 50...they say they've historically been spotted in India for hundreds of years or longer...the last one in the 20's.
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Ther're amazing .i hope they dont go extinct.
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ohhhhhhhkaaayyyyy! No that is a biiiig tiger O_O
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O_O Woah, that's a big one? Are you sure it's a tiger? Looks more like a liger to me...but then, you're a zookeeper, so you must know. x3
Great shot!
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Golden tabby tigers typically look especially coloration-wise, like ligers a little bit...people make the mistake often.
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Ah, thanks for the explanation. =]
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Oaw, very impressivel, i really love the colors of his mane... and i didnt know golden tigers coulf be that hughe!!!
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Thanks! Yeah...a lot of it is also perspective but he's a big boy...
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Man, that tiger is enormous! I didn't realize they were so large, but then, I've never seen one in person before--not even in a zoo! I'm amazed by these animals, and I think it's wonderful that you spend so much time and effort on interacting with these animals. It's wonderful to see some 'behind the scenes' shots! I'm sure that you put in a LOT of work with these guys. I've been going through your gallery, and I'm really impressed!
Could you explain the genetics behind the tabby tigers? I'd never heard of them before, but they really are beautiful. Are they lacking in melanin? I mean, they're obviously not albino, but...
Anyways, great shot, and beautiful animal!
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Thanks! Great questions...not sure how I missed this comment...sorry about that...
He's about 500lbs. Thanks, it's a great job, and it's such great fun to try and give them as much enrichment and fun as they give us.
First, a white tiger is a double recessive gene. So, if you have two heterozygous orange parents: (hopefully this works)
T t
T TT Tt
t Tt tt
You'll have an orange 75% of the time (twice as often heterozygous) and white 25% of the time.
If you have two homozygous oranges, or a hetero and a homozygous orange you will only get orange, and if you have 2 homozygous whites you'll only get white offspring.
Anyway, from what I understand, the tabby gene is a whole other double recessive gene, so think of it the same way, but added to the white...I would guess the snow white tiger works in there somewhere...
So, they're not albino, a double recessive gene can be compared to blond hair and blue eyes in humans...
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Ahh, I'd forgotten about that comment! Thanks for the answers. I'm actually going to be getting my very first look at a live tiger on Saturday! It'll actually be more like 6 tigers and 2 kittens which were born on February 11th. Along with a whole slew of other animals...but...I'm admittedly excited about the tigers. Going to a wildlife rescue sanctuary with the classes I teach as a field trip.
The genetics thing is really interesting, and I think I understand it pretty well! I had heard that excessive breeding of white tigers should be avoided due to the risk of unhealthy offspring, and with them being double-recessive, that does make sense, because if an irresponsible breeder was focused only on color, a lot of inbreeding could occur very quickly. Still, very interesting!
Thanks again for replying, and again, thanks for providing these photos for us. It's so interesting to be able to see 'behind the scenes' like that! (I actually used one of your photos to make a christmas card for an assignment in my image editing class last semester. It was adorable.)
Thanks again for the response!β¬
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No problem! Cool, always more interesting in person.
Yes, whites and tabbies do occur in the wild, very rarely, and the way the white tiger was created and exploited in captivity was by capturing one white (named Mohan) almost a century ago, breeding him with an orange tiger, which basically gave them a 25% chance of getting another white tiger, then bred him with his daughter, which gave them...a 75% chance of getting a white (something like that)...anyway, to this day is irresponsible to breed white with white, and our oldest 2 white tigers and one orange actually came from 2 orange (heterozygous parents)...which is a fun little fact to throw out there.
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I thought that it was from one or two original animals. It's done similarly with new color mutations in reptiles, but genetic disorders caused by line-breeding and even inbreeding (for a limited number of generations) is far more rare in reptiles than in mammals. Unfortunately, it's the animals produced by irresponsible breeders who suffer, rather than the irresponsible breeders themselves.
Anyhow, thanks again for the info!
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Wow, he's big! is this a tiger or is this a liger?
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He is a golden tabby bengal tiger...but tabbies definitely have some color similarities with ligers...
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Oh, I see now! I didn't there was golden tabby bengal tigers 
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