It's about a tiger story : Black and white and orange all over: The beautiful, striped coat and that powerful, mesmerizing gaze place the tiger among the world’s most revered wildlife. It’s a reverence that’s mixed with a bit of fear, an appropriate reaction to a large, well-muscled, swift hunter with 1- to 2-inch-long canine teeth and 3- to 4-inch-long claws. The tiger is a stalk-and-ambush hunter, and the distinctive stripes are good camouflage in the long grass or wooded forests of their diverse habitats. Dark stripes on a pale background break up the tiger’s outline as it lies in wait for prey to come near. Tigers can also be black with tan stripes, all-white (albino), or white and tan. The “white tigers” found in some zoos are not albinos but rather the white-and-tan color variation with blue eyes (true albinos have pink eyes).
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