Amur Tiger

hemsley said:

the three french girls are pure amurs the previous three were mixed. Great shot

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Yeah i thought thw white, normal and golden were mixed tigers, thanks

Turns out that they are not pure Amurs after all. It's been reported on another thread that they are 3 of around 30 Amur tigers in Europe that have been found to have Sumatran genes. The problem wasn't discovered until after Longleat had obtained them. I believe that the plan is now to keep them at Longleat for display only.

I am not surprised to read that they are not pure; the photograph and the animals are beautiful but they do not look like 'Amurs'.