Mummy, where are my stripes?

[airiefairie]

Pure white Bengal tiger astonishes keepers
It doesn't take a wildlife expert to spot the difference between this white Bengal tiger cub and the rest of her family. For six-month-old Fareeda missed out when they were handing out the stripes.

That makes her an extreme rarity - and a major attraction at the South African conservation centre where she was born.

Fareeda's mother Geena and father Shiva are kept at Cango Wildlife Ranch, near Cape Town, as part of a breeding programme to keep their species alive.


As if I would miss an article about my beloved cats? She is so cute that I will die! But unfortunately there is no chance that she would survive in the wild...

Comments

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

Oh that is SO cute! I love white tigers, is this one an albino? I guess not because the eyes look like they have pigmentation.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Nope: "White Bengal tigers are not albino - they have distinctive blue eyes, and they used to be found in Northern India before they died out."

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

No, just her mummy forgot to order stripes for her third kid =))