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Support tigers and other species. An adult white tiger can weigh up to 300 kilograms and they can grow up to 3 meters in length.
Bengal tigers live in India in grasslands and tropical rainforests.
How long do white tigers live in the wild. Nonetheless a few scientists claim that the white tigers could have possibly lived more years in the wild as compared to Bengal tigers. In captivity white tigers live as long as 10 15 years. In the wild they could have lived up to 18 years max.
How long do tigers live in the wild. Tigers live around 10 and 15 years. Young cubs usually do not live long and many of them die within 2 years after they get born.
Mortality is a big problem so only half of those that survive live to establish their territory and further reproduce. How long do tigers live in captivity. When it comes to life expectancy tigers live around 20 to 26 years in captivity.
However in wild they cant live for more than 10-12 years. Female tigers usually give birth to two cubs sometimes 4 at a time. Unfortunately young cubs do not live long and die within 2 years.
Only half of them survive and further reproduce. White tigers can live up to 15 years in the wild while their lifespan in captivity is between 16 and 20 years. SHARE TO SPREAD THE JOY.
Tigers have been known to live to the age of 26 in the wild. Female tigers give birth to two to four cubs at a time on average and can do so every two years. Survival is difficult for cubs.
About half of all cubs do not live more than two years. Support tigers and other species. The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the Bengal tigers Siberian Tiger and man-made hybrids between the two which is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh Assam West Bengal Bihar and Odisha in the Sunderbans region and especially in the former State of Rewa.
Such a tiger has the black stripes typical of the Bengal. Lifespan The life span of tigers in the wild is usually between 10 and 15 years. In human care or on rare occasions in the wild a tiger can live up to 20 years.
However approximately half of all wild tiger cubs do not survive past the first two years of life. An adult white tiger can weigh up to 300 kilograms and they can grow up to 3 meters in length. Female white tigers are smaller averaging about 200 kilograms and its head to tail length is up to 26 meters.
White tigers are more muscular stronger and a lot more aggressive compared to the normal orange Bengal tiger. The fact that the few Bengal Tigers that remain in the wild are becoming more and more isolated means that there is less of a chance that White Tigers will be produced and this coupled with the severe declines in population numbers could mean that White Tigers have disappeared from the wild. How long do tigers live for.
In the wild tigers have a 14 year life span. Once mature they will spend most of their time living and hunting alone with the exception of females when they are raising their young. Where Do White Tigers Live.
The white tiger lives in the southeastern part of Asia including Nepal Bhutan and Bangladesh as well as in various parts of India. White tiger habitats range from tropical forests and jungles to mangrove swamps. To survive white tigers need an area of at least 20 square miles and a sufficient supply of prey and.
Though cub infanticide mainly by males is known it is not very unusual to find a male with a tigress and cubs even sharing a kill. Such associations however do not last long. The tigress does not breed again until her cubs are independent.
The average life span of a tiger in the wild is about 11 years. Where do white tigers live. Bengal and Siberian tigers with a recessive gene have white fur instead of the familiar reddish-orange coat with black stripes.
Bengal tigers live in India in grasslands and tropical rainforests. Siberian tigers live in the forests of Russia. These forests provide them with shelter from the elements and keep them hidden.
Because the white coloration is so disadvantageous to survival there is no recorded evidence of a white cub ever living long enough in the wild to become an adult. That is why white tigers ONLY exist in captivity and then ONLY as the result of continual destructive and unethical inbreeding. White tigers are not a species separate from other tiger species but are instead genetic anomalies.
Since a total of only 5000 to 7000 tigers exist in the wild and the natural occurrence of white tigers is one per 10000 there may be no wild white tigers left. The maximum lifespan of the wild specimen is about 15 years. Very few tigers reach the 15 years age in the wild because they eventually become too weak to hunt large animals.
In captivity Bengal tigers can live as long as 18 to 20 years. Rarely do they live beyond 25 years. The average lifespan for Siberian tigers ranges from 1618 years.
Wild individuals tend to live between 1015 years while in captivity individuals may live up to 25 years.