Heze Newspaper All-Media News (Reporter Meng Xin) At about 4:45 a.m. on January 11, in heze wildlife park, a Bengal white tiger gave birth to a white tiger baby, which was also the first baby tiger born in Heze in the year of the tiger. At present, the white tiger baby is very healthy, and a special "villa" has been arranged to be raised by the mother of the white tiger in Bangladesh, and special monitoring and care has been arranged.
On January 12, a reporter from the Peony Evening News rushed to Heze Wildlife Park, but did not see the baby white tiger and the mother of the white tiger in Bangladesh. "At present, the tiger mother raises the white tiger baby alone. Since she has just given birth, the tiger mother is highly vigilant and vulnerable to external stimulation. At the same time, the white tiger baby has just been born, the body resistance is poor, in order to prevent foreign infections, human disturbance should be minimized. We breeders generally do not enter the nursery room at will, but there is monitoring and care throughout the process. Sun Jinzhu, a tiger breeder at Heze Wildlife Park, told the Peony Evening News all-media reporter.
The Peony Evening News full media reporter learned that the Bengal white tiger is a variant of the Bengal tiger, not suffering from albinism, the tiger that really suffers from albinism will not have stripes on the body, while the Bengal white tiger has normal black or dark brown stripes. The reason why the Bengal white tiger has hair on a white background is due to a genetic mutation. The mutated gene is recessive, and even if both parents have white recessive alleles, there is only a one-in-four chance of giving birth to a white tiger. The Bengal white tiger is a world-class protected animal and is very rare. Due to the lack of protective color, the white tiger is very difficult to survive in nature and has become extinct in the wild. The first wild Bengal white tiger was found and captured in India in 1951 and named "Mohan", and the hundreds of existing white tigers in the world are all its descendants.
According to Cheng Yuliang, the person in charge of Heze Wildlife Park, the Bengal white tiger who gave birth to the cub was 5 years old when the park opened in 2018, which is equivalent to more than 20 years old and has reached adulthood. "The pregnancy period of the Bengal White Tiger is generally about 100 days. As early as the Bangladesh White Tiger mother was pregnant, the park launched a pregnancy care plan, and carefully prepared a 'small villa' for the tiger mother, and equipped with a delivery room, heating, high-quality food preparation, 24-hour uninterrupted monitoring, veterinarians are on standby all day, afraid that the tiger mother will have a little problem. ”
"The white tiger baby was born at about 4:45 on the 11th, and it was more than 1 pound at birth." Cheng Yuliang told the Peony Evening News all-media reporter, "The white tiger baby is the first tiger boy born in the year of the tiger in our city. At the beginning, we adopted artificial feeding, feeding milk every two hours in the incubator, which can be more than 100 milliliters at a time. After physical examination, the white tiger baby is very healthy, so it is handed over to the Bangladeshi white tiger mother to raise alone in the nursing room. At present, the mental state of the tiger mother and the white tiger baby is very good. ”
It is reported that this year's "May Day" holiday, the white tiger baby can meet with tourists.
【Source: Peony Evening News】