Breathtaking image of the Bengal Tiger's regal power
Photographer Birte Person captured this spectacular shot of a rare Bengal Tiger at feeding time, doing the closest thing it could to hunting, at Singapore Zoo.
This is just one of those images that blows you away! It reminds me of this another stunning shot of a Tiger underwater, which I have dug out of my Posterous archives.
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"White tigers are almost extinct and most of those that survive are in captivity. In the past century only 12 have been spotted in the wild.
They are neither an albino nor a separate subspecies. Instead, they are a genetic hiccup, which happens naturally once in every 10,000 Bengal tiger births.
The result is a tiger with white fur, black stripes, blue eyes and a pink nose.
Bengal tigers are fully grown at two to three years of age and live for up to 15 years in the wild. Males weigh 200-230 kilograms and are up to three metres in length. The females are 130-70 kilograms and up to 2.5 metres long."
