The "blue" eyes are much more intense before scanning, but I hope you get the idea. This color, which has been poetically described as "sky blue" and "robin egg blue" is a color that I have only seen on pictures of the Bristol Zoo tigers, and in recent years on pictures of certain white lions. I have been looking White tigers "dead in the eyes" for most of my adult life, I am talking nose to nose here, and I never seen a color even close to this and I have no color blindness issues. It is a simple matter to white out the pupil of a defective eye, no matter how slight, and insert a "robin egg blue" pupil. You can do it with any color you choose, ON A PHOTOGRAPH for publicity purposes. Wait until we start discussing the occasional tongue that protrudes out of some faces, but not all, and never has, of some white tigers.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Bristo Zoo White Tigers from the SMITHSONIAN article that Paul referenced.
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Wade-So what's the deal with the protruding tongues? Could you post a picture of one? You should write a book about your life and fill it with these pictures you've posted for Mary Ann and myself. Did you know there are around 560 Maharajas in India? I wonder what would happen if they all ran for parliament. I know Jackie was an MP. Have you seen his book on Indian palaces? He probably had a lot to say about Govindgarh lake Palace. Sincerely Paul P.S. There's an interesting photograph in Billy Singh's book Tiger Tiger of Lord Curzon, who was a Viceroy of India, posing with one of the Maharajas of Rewa. There's a dead tiger and a dead leopard in front of them. Lord Curzon saved a lot of India's ancient monuments, like the Taj Mahal, from ruin.
What do you mean by defective eye exactly? I was just trying to find something I thought you wrote about nutritional deficiencies associated with handrearing causing crossed eyes in white tigers and or Amur tigers. Remember Clarence the cross eyed lion? I found an old Life magazine article about him a while back. More of your old posts must be disappearing. I guess you have limited space. Did you ever hear about the trade union, as I call it, that the Maharajas have or had in India? Maybe it was more of a lobby group, called the Indian Chamber Of Princes, I think it was. Maybe that was just during the Raj. Sincerely Paul
Paul,
A crossed eye is what I was referring to. Any color of pupil/iris can be added as well as it's location on the eye for cosmetic/publicity purposes in a still photo. Virtually impossible if it is an action photo.
Wade
Did Bristol Zoo have cross eyed white tigers? Sincerely Paul PS: When I look for older posts I find that I get different results depending on whether I put "white tiger", "white tigers" in the plural, or my own name into the internal search engines. I tried putting in just the word Ural, for the tiger with that name, and got nothing. Thanks for all the information.
Bristol Zoo was the worst I've ever been to in my entire life. I never went back. It was ten acres of hell. Sincerely Paul PS They had white tigers and okapis.
This white tiger looks cross-eyed: Jihad Against White Tigers http://www.rexano.org/tiger_jihad_Frame.htm I almost forgot that the cross eyed white tiger we were talking about-rewati_was sent to the Cincinnati Zoo in 1976 to be bred to Tony, and was later killed by Ika. Sincerely Paul
Dear Wade: I just stumbled across this article about two supposed white tigers which are supposed to have been born in the wild in India last year, but they don't look very white to me:
thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-the-environment/the-white-brothers-of-nilgiris/article20005567.ece
These "white tigers" are living in a national park in Tamil Nadu, India. Sincerely Paul PS: Happy Easter.
I was wondering if it would be worth adding, maybe those two "white tiger" brothers living in that national park in Tamil Nadu, India are actually heterozygotes, or golden tabby tigers. Andy Goldfarb the tiger trainer at MarineWorld/AfricaUSA in Vallejo, CA used to call them "strawberries". I remember that Jack Hanna had an orange tiger cub on the David Letterman Show which was stripeless, the only stripeless orange tiger I have ever seen. I am pretty sure that all of the tiger cubs which Jack Hanna brought with him for television appearances belonged to Josip Marcan because at some point in time AfricaUSA had a falling out with Josip Marcan and he started sending his tiger cubs for handrearing to the Columbus Zoo instead (I think). AfricaUSA used to dispatch a lady named Nancy something to Las Vegas to handrear white tiger cubs for Siegfried & Roy. I was really shocked that anybody would breed cross-eyed white tigers, but the Cincinnati Zoo started breeding from a pair of cross-eyed white tigers fathered by Wade Burck's white tiger Tony. Ed Maruska's original pair of white tigers were named Bhim & Sumita. Their mother was Kesari, an orange daughter of Mohini Rewa of the US National Zoo fathered by Mohini's uncle Sampson, her uncle and half brother. Their father was Mohan, the Maharaja of Rewa's wild caught white tiger. Sincerely Paul
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