#Cat with tiger stripes skin

The results indicated a bigger range of tiger stripes and colouring between subspecies that is normally described.

#Cat with tiger stripes skin

You can see from the table that the single Siberian tiger ( altaica) has a high score indicating a light coloured skin with thin striping while the Bengal tiger ( tigris tigris) has a darker pelage and thick, abundant stripes. For each skin the character scores were totaled to give a specimen score. Scores of one reflect dark skins with thick abundance stripes. A score of three means the skin was light and the stripes thin. This contrasted with the brown stripes of their paler winter coat.Įach characteristic was given a score of either one or three as shown in the table above with an intermediate character state of 2 if necessary. Moulting ( shedding fur) Amur tigers in a breeding centre near Harbin, China had black stripes on their new darker summer coat. Black stripes may fade to brown and the darker ground colours may become paler during the year. However, tigers in the north where there are longer periods of daylight in the summer months may have lighter stripes because of fading of the pigment ( melanin) in the hair strands which create the stripes. The coloration of the stripes may vary too. In other words, Amur tigers can have a similar darkness of colouration to the darker coloured tigers of Southeast Asia and vice versa. There is, however, variation within populations. The Amur tiger (in Siberia, Russia) is often pale especially when in the winter coat. Darker coloured tigers are found in the tropical rainforest of south-east Asia and the Sunda Islands. It reflects their habitat and the humidity of the area where they live.

The ground colour of tigers’s skins (pelages) varies from dark red to pale yellow. Photos in public domain on Pinterest and montaged by PoC. Essay on Cat Behavior Toggle Child Menu.

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