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Revised: Nose leather made wider, right eye perspective tweaked. Going to go ahead and put this up for print...

The Maltese Tiger

The Maltese Tiger is an enigma amongst large cats, for there are reports of it being seen in the wild, but there is no proof of its existence except for a few tufts of blue-grey hair found in the mountains of China. Its rarity is understandable (if it does truly exist), since descriptions have lent it to be assumed to be a color mutation in the South China tiger, which is critically endangered - only 20-50 are thought to be left in the wild.

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The only known blue tiger: [link]
This cub is psuedo-melanistic, having thick black stripes that almost entirely cover its primary color. Tigers are known to be darker when younger and pale as they age - I personally wonder if this cub would have grown to become a white tiger, but it was killed by its mother after being born in an Oklahoma zoo.
Thank you to ~00BlacKBerrY00 for the information I failed to find myself
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The blue tiger cub born in Oklahoma was a hypermelanic cub born in 1964 to two normally-colored bengal parents. BookRags reports it as dying in infancy, rather than being killed. It confirms the smoky blue color of its fur between the black striping
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There are several things that I feel weak about this image, but I'm not about to tell what they are.

8.5" x 5.5" (half a sheet of A4) 65lb drawing paper
Crayola colored pencils

Why so small? Because it's a travelling sketchbook, since I can't fit my whole one in my purse! I do these drawings on my downtime during my 12-hour shifts at work! :3

Please do not use without my permission! Thank you!

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FOR YOUR OWN READING
Make your own judgement!
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[ Messybeast: Blue Tigers ]
[ Messybeast: Black Tigers ]
[ Wikipedia: Maltese Tiger ]
[ BookRags: Maltese Tiger Summary ]

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Description
Revised: Nose leather made wider, right eye perspective tweaked. Going to go ahead and put this up for print...

The Maltese Tiger

The Maltese Tiger is an enigma amongst large cats, for there are reports of it being seen in the wild, but there is no proof of its existence except for a few tufts of blue-grey hair found in the mountains of China. Its rarity is understandable (if it does truly exist), since descriptions have lent it to be assumed to be a color mutation in the South China tiger, which is critically endangered - only 20-50 are thought to be left in the wild.

---EDIT:---
The only known blue tiger: [link]
This cub is psuedo-melanistic, having thick black stripes that almost entirely cover its primary color. Tigers are known to be darker when younger and pale as they age - I personally wonder if this cub would have grown to become a white tiger, but it was killed by its mother after being born in an Oklahoma zoo.
Thank you to ~00BlacKBerrY00 for the information I failed to find myself
---/EDIT---
---EDIT2:---
The blue tiger cub born in Oklahoma was a hypermelanic cub born in 1964 to two normally-colored bengal parents. BookRags reports it as dying in infancy, rather than being killed. It confirms the smoky blue color of its fur between the black striping
---/EDIT---

There are several things that I feel weak about this image, but I'm not about to tell what they are.

8.5" x 5.5" (half a sheet of A4) 65lb drawing paper
Crayola colored pencils

Why so small? Because it's a travelling sketchbook, since I can't fit my whole one in my purse! I do these drawings on my downtime during my 12-hour shifts at work! :3

Please do not use without my permission! Thank you!

------~*~------
FOR YOUR OWN READING
Make your own judgement!
------~*~------
[ Messybeast: Blue Tigers ]
[ Messybeast: Black Tigers ]
[ Wikipedia: Maltese Tiger ]
[ BookRags: Maltese Tiger Summary ]

6/20/11 - 200 Favs!
7/6/11 - 1000 Views!

Features!
=TimberClipse 's [ dA's 11th Birthday Countdown ] !