Strawberry tiger

Portrait of the golden tiger. A golden tabby tiger has an extremely rare color variation caused by a recessive gene and is currently only found in captive tigers. #tiger #color

Those tigers are quite rare, but there are about three in this zoo!

Memphis Zoo - (photo by Lisa Richardson) Golden Tabby Tiger (aka "strawberry tiger") extremely rare, found only in captivity - less than 30 in the world.

So you thought tigers just came in orange/black and white/black? There are actually rare tiger colors that are not as well-known. The golden tabby, above, has dark orange stripes instead of black.…

A Walk On The Wild Side

"Taj" the Golden Bengal Tiger at Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah, Wa. May 2008.

Golden Tabby Tiger--Sometimes called the “strawberry tiger” due to the coloration, this is a color variety of the Bengal tiger and not a separate species. Though not a normally found coloration in the wild, India has records of wild golden tigers which date back as far as the early 1900’s Records indicate that there are less than 30 golden tabby tigers in the world. This cat looks inbred to me -- the eyes.

(The Snow White, Standard, Golden Tabby and White Bengal tigers) .....

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Flehmen golden tiger

When we think of a tiger, we automatically think of two different colors; orange and white. However, what most people do not realize is that there are in fact five different colors of tigers, and even more shades within those color variations. Some...

We all know that there are only a handful of animals that can be domesticated, and anything found in the safari most certainly can’t be. Yet, there’s something special when you do see a wild animal act in a way that’s anything but.From Germany to Botswana, European animal conservationist Valentin Gruener flipped his life around to take care of an abandoned baby lion. Nine years later, people are still blown away by how this lion greets Valentin, leaving them speechless with how gentle the…

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