Description

The largest feline!

Reaching 3m in length and weighing 300 kg, the tiger is the largest of the felines. Powerful and majestic, it can make jumps of 10 meters!

White tigers?
The vast majority of tigers have an orange coat, striped with black, but there are white tigers, with black or brown stripes. These are neither a species nor a particular subspecies of tiger. This astonishing coloration is not an adaptation to life in a snowy environment either: it is due to a genetic mutation called “leucism”.
In the wild, leucistic tigers are only present in the “Bengal tiger” subspecies and are extremely rare: only one in 10,000 births is affected! They have always been prized: they no longer exist in the wild, the last of them having been killed in 1958.

The situation of tigers in the wild is unfortunately very worrying. Poached for their skin and traditional Chinese medicine, they are also victims of deforestation and the scarcity of their prey. There are less than 4000 of them left in the wild…