NR ASCA
AU Kelly,D.F.; Pearson,H.; Wright,A.I.; Greenham,L.W.
TI Morbidity in captive white tigers
QU The Comparative Pathology of Animals, editors R.J. Montah, G.Magaki, Washington DC Smithsonian Institution Press 1980: 183-8
IN
Tom Pringle faßt zusammen: The only published paper on white tigers describes spongiform encephalopathy or gliosis or both in the brains of 4 white tigers out of 6 that died with similar behavioral and clinical signs including weight loss, weak unsteady gait (especially in the hind limbs), could not stand without support, head-pressing, constant roaring, periods of unusual aggressiveness and unwillingness to leave the sleeping den.. The course of illness averaged 3 months to death. All of the animals are associated with the Bristol Zoo. Liver problems were also observed. Feeding practises are not disclosed.
Champak, born mar 62, died Jun7 0 Sarala, born May 68, died Oct 71 Sushita, born May 68, died Sep 72 Akbar, born May 68, died Dec 72 Seeta, born May 70, died Feb 73 in New Delhi after Oct 72 export Shubhra, born May 70, died Sept 77
The Bristol Zoo purchased two 15-month old tigers, Champak and Chemeli in June of 1963; the litters above are the second and third. There is no information on the other 18 white tigers born in Bristol between 1967 and 1976. These are the offspring of the original white tiger, Mohan, captured in 1951 by the Maharaja of Rewa. Outbred with a normal tigress and then back-crossed into a daughter, Radha, resulted in the original litters. White tigers are not albinos.
A pilot study of transmission by intracerebral injection into mice from fresh frozen cerebrum and cerebellum from Akbar gave statistically shortened lifespans but no overt illness. Akbar had "striking vacuolation of the neuropil in the grey and white matter and focal cerebral microgliosis. Histological features of classical encephalitis were absent.
SP englisch
PO USA