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A white tiger, named Scarlett O'Hara, who was Tony's sister, was cross-eyed only on the right side. A male tiger named 'Cheytan', a son of Bhim and Sumita who was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, died at the San Antonio Zoo in 1992, from anaesthesia complications during root canal therapy. It appears that white tigers also react strangely to ...
The vernacular name "cheetah" is derived from Hindustani Urdu: چیتا and Hindi: चीता (ćītā). [3] This in turn comes from Sanskrit: चित्रय (Chitra-ya) meaning 'variegated', 'adorned' or 'painted'. [4] In the past, the cheetah was often called "hunting leopard" because they could be tamed and used for coursing. [5]
Shere Khan (शेर खान شیر خان Śēr Khān, "Tiger King" ("Khan" is a common title of Indian Muslim lordship and royalty); Bengal tiger) [2] – a vicious man-eating Bengal Tiger who is the only recurring animal villain and the archenemy of Mowgli. He is often known as "a chief among tigers" and in multiple adaptations as the one ...
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
The history of lion–tiger hybrids dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and a tiger. The name "liger", a portmanteau of lion and tiger, was coined by the 1930s. [4] "Ligress" is used to refer to a female liger, on the model of ...
Officials at Ohio's Toledo Zoo have announced the birth of twin Siberian tigers and just revealed their names. ... Two other names that were in the running were Calida, which had a total of 1,186 ...
It's official: The three Sumatran tiger cubs at the Nashville Zoo have names. The zoo announced the names Friday. The name for the male cub is Bulan (pronounced BOO-lan), an Indonesian name that ...
The Sumatran tiger subspecies is critically endangered, with only an estimated 400-600 left in the wild. The zoo will match all donations dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000.