According to the messybeast link at #21 above, 3 female normal orange tigers carrying the white gene went to Longleat from Bristol - Nepti, Schalla & Suki.
According to the messybeast link at #21 above, 3 female normal orange tigers carrying the white gene went to Longleat from Bristol - Nepti, Schalla & Suki.
I've looked at the Messybeast link- unfortunately the family trees are virtually indecipherable. Also it doesn't seem explain how these last Orange female cubs were prodced. I can't read the dates but it looks like '90' at the end? Most of Bristol's white tiger breeding -that I know of- was using White x White tigers which of course only produces 100% White cubs. I'd like to know more about the parentage of these normal-coloured cubs. were they fathered by their last White male, bred with a normal tigress? If so, I'd like to know where the mother came from, and whether she was a pure Indian tiger.
I've looked at the Messybeast link- unfortunately the family trees are virtually indecipherable. Also it doesn't seem explain how these last Orange female cubs were prodced. I can't read the dates but it looks like '90' at the end? Most of Bristol's white tiger breeding -that I know of- was using White x White tigers which of course only produces 100% White cubs. I'd like to know more about the parentage of these normal-coloured cubs. were they fathered by their last White male, bred with a normal tigress? If so, I'd like to know where the mother came from, and whether she was a pure Indian tiger.
I don't know anything else about the 3 orange cubs, sorry (or even if they reproduced at Longleat).
The dates of birth given are Nepti 24-11-91. Schalla 18-5-89. Suki 30-9-90.
P.S. The Longleat line appears to have genes from the 'tabby' Butu who traces his ancestry (and thereby Amur genes) to the famous White, Tony, via Columbus Zoo. I think. White tiger breeding really is 'messy'!
It is very difficult to work out exactly from these charts what happened after about 1976 at Bristol. It seems they did bring in a normal coloured male to outcross the whites, though I don't remember any of this. Were those later orange tigers split for white which appear on the charts all born at Bristol, or were some born at other zoos? Did the last three 'orange' females go direct to Longleat from Bristol, I wonder?- again its not clear.
Unless they were already impure, it seems those three females were probably the last pure Indian tigers in the UK. The purity would have been lost when/if they died or bred at Longleat with the male you describe above.
