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Excuse me Shouldn't You be in the Polar Bear Enclosure?

Another view of the beautiful tigers from the Loro Parque Zoological Foundation, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Espana. The tigers at the Loro Parque Zoological Foundation (Tenerife) when we visited there in March 2011, were ‘Prince’ the male tiger who is a hybrid of a Bengal Tiger and a Siberian Tiger (hence the unnaural whitish colour) and Saba who had the more normal tiger colouration. Both animals were hand-reared from birth and were trained to appear on TV shows and in circuses. They came to Loro Parque when their owner decided to donate them to a better living environment. At Loro Parque in Tenerife, they have their own island with ample vegetation cover and a moat to swim in and of course a good diet. I understand now that albino tigers are hybrids and can have lots of defects because of their breeding and the poor things have usually been bred by unscrupulous humans to make money for them in shows and freak zoo exhibits.

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Taken on March 19, 2011