Rare Black Tiger Spotted In Odisha's Similipal National Park
Rare Black Tiger Spotted In Odisha's Similipal National Park
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Bhubaneswar: An extremely unusual glimpse of a black tiger marking its territory by scratching on a tree may be witnessed in Odisha's Similipal National Park.
On Friday, International Tiger Day, Indian Forest Service (IFS) employee Susanta Nanda released a video of a rare melanistic tiger.
Large, dark stripes can be seen on black or pseudo-melanistic tigers, which are uncommon.
These animals are Bengal tigers that have a single base change in a specific gene. This mutation makes the distinguishing black stripes of the tigers larger and more prominent than the orange area.
Another IFS officer, Parveen Kasveen, wrote, "The rare tigers were first formally discovered in STR (Similipal Tiger Reserve) in 2007."
