Black tiger born !

the text from vogelcommando's link above is as follows (and there is a photo from CCTV on that link):
For the first time in India, the Nandankanan zoo here would be credited to have a black tiger. Out of the four cubs which are born to tigress Sneha and her partner Manish at the zoo late on Sunday night, one is found to be black, which zoo experts claimed first in the Indian zoo history.

“Black tigers are usually seen in the Similipal jungle. But now a black tiger cub will attract visitors at the Nandankanan zoo. No other Indian zoo has a black tigers,” said Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) SS Srivastava.

The birth of the black cub was confirmed after closely reviewing the footage of the CCTV camera installed at the tigress Sneha’s cell on Tuesday. “We have been monitoring every movement of Sneha and her four cubs round the clock since the mortality rate of tiger cubs is quite high,” said zoo Director Sudarsan Panda, adding that zoo officials and doctors are always on alert to meet any eventuality.
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Here is also a thread about another (partly-)black tiger cub in an Indian zoo: http://www.zoochat.com/254/more-black-than-white-tiger-171098/
 
The cub at 2nd link is a leopard, with those obvious spots & long tail, while one at 1st link seems to be a real tiger :)
 
Somebody needs to make sure that cub is placed as far way from its parents and siblings as possible. Otherwise I foresee terrible temptations looming!
 
Elephas Maximus said:
The cub at 2nd link is a leopard, with those obvious spots & long tail, while one at 1st link seems to be a real tiger
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d'oh! You're quite right! I thought the white tiger beside it was the mother but looking again it is obviously a cub as well.

The original story is true though. In the article which vogelcommando posted the photo at the time was a still from CCTV footage when the cub was newly-born (it was suckling at the mother; the photo can still be found in google searches) but it has since been changed to one of the cub when it was older. It isn't fully black, but very unusual looking.
 
Chlidonias said:
there's a photo of the black cub on this link: Black tiger cub born in Nandankanan zoo, first time in India

It's really black!
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There is no photo, just a blank space where a photo should be. The second photo lower down is a melanistic leopard cub as stated previously. Google searches (both standard text search and image search) reveal nothing. I will believe when I see it (and I doubt I will see it), but I suspect it is the same thing I mentioned in the other thread - a case of abundism, not true melanism.
 
Pic from the FIRST link.
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hmm, you know what? I'm suspecting this story actually IS fake after all!

The photo now on the article in vogelcommando's initial post (and pictured above by Elephas Maximus) is NOT the cub said to have been born at the Nandankanan Zoo in July. In fact it is the cub born at Vandalur Zoo in 2010! (I found the same photo from sites three years old, and see also the other thread here about the Vandalur cub: more black than white tiger).

The photo initially used in the article vogelcommando linked to was a still from CCTV footage and can be seen here: Nandankanan zoo in Odisha releases video footage of black tiger cub

It's pretty impossible to see anything useful in the shot (the black cub is helpfully circled in red) but I can't help but think that the photo I found earlier in an article which turned out to be a black leopard cub (embarrassingly!) - see post #3 - actually is that same cub. In other words I think they fostered a black leopard cub into a white tiger's litter for, presumably, publicity purposes.

What do others think?
 
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