La Tigre bianca del Bengala ama l'acqua - ENG

5 Maggio 2013

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    La Tigre bianca del Bengala ama l'acqua




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    La tigre del Bengala pare avere un diverso rapporto con l'acqua: le tigri sono discreti nuotatori, in grado di attraversare distanze di 5-6 km trasportando le proprie prede da un punto all'altro di un lago, per esempio.

    La tigre non sembra perdere il suo istinto di nuotatrice anche quando si trova in cattività: questa tigre bianca del Bengala di nome Odin, che si trova al Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Zoo di Vallejo, vicino a San Francisco, si getta abitualmente nella pozza d'acqua del suo recinto, attirando gli sguardi di molti spettatori e bambini curiosi.

    I guardiani dello zoo hanno appositamente costruito una vasca con pareti trasparenti, per poter ammirare più comodamente, e senza il rischio di ritorsioni da parte della tigre (che non pare amare gli sguardi dei curiosi). Il pretesto per gli spettacolari tuffi viene fornito dagli stessi guardiani: succulenti pezzi di carne vengono gettati nell'acqua, seguiti immediatamente dalla tigre, intenzionata a non lasciarsi sfuggire uno spuntino.

    Appena Odin è giunta allo zoo, il suo addestratore Lee Munroe si è subito accorto della sua abilità nei tuffi, ed ha escogitato la strategia per convincerla a lanciarsi in acqua. Niente di meglio di un pezzo di carne per motivare una tigre del Bengala.


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    White Tiger Under Water




    Odin the White Tiger (Panthera tigris) is a tiger with a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment in the normally orange fur although they still have dark stripes. This occurs when a tiger inherits two copies of the recessive gene for the paler coloration: pink nose, grey-mottled skin, ice-blue eyes, and white to cream-coloured fur with black, grey, or chocolate-coloured stripes. (Another genetic condition also makes the stripes of the tiger very pale; white tigers of this type are called snow-white.)

    White tigers do not constitute a separate subspecies of their own and can breed with orange ones, although all of the resulting offspring will be heterozygous for the recessive white gene, and their fur will be orange. The only exception would be if the orange parent was itself already a heterozygous tiger, which would give each cub a 50% chance of being either double-recessive white or heterozygous orange.


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    These incredible photos of a White Bengal Tiger named Odin.

    Odin is six years old and 10 feet long from tail to nose.

    Odin lives at a Zoo in Vallejo, California, near San Francisco .

    Odin with his British trainer Lee Munro.

    Odin was hand-raised at the zoo. And after he was weaned,

    his British trainer Lee Munro discovered his remarkable skill.

    When a lump of meat was thrown into a pool of water, Odin

    would happily dive in after it.

    He makes a funny face - and its actually to close his nostrils

    to stop the water from going into his nose.

    Not all big cats enjoy the water but for Tigers from the hot

    climate of South-East Asia its one way to cool down.

    Plus they hunt in and around water. Theyre an ambush

    predator so they wait for prey to come down to the water.

    When you actually see him dive underwater he looks

    so graceful,

    Odin loves the water and he loves food, he said. Not

    all big cats will dive and swim underwater even for meat treats.

    Munro said tigers were the most powerful swimmers

    out of all land-dwelling animals.

    Tragically, within our lifetimes, zoos might be the

    only places left to see these magnificent animals.

    A century ago there were about 100,000 tigers in

    the wild. Now there are just 2,500 adults, with the

    Bengal variety almost extinct. None has been seen

    in the wild since the last white tiger was shot and killed in 1958.

    White tigers are the most rare. They get their whitecolor

    from an unusual and extremely rare genetic combination.


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