Black Tigers Subject – Environment Context – A team of scientists has resolved the genetic mystery of Simlipal’s so-called black tigers Concept – The study found that a single genetic mutation in these tigers caused black stripes to broaden or spread into the tawny background. Tigers have a distinctive dark stripe pattern on […]

    Black Tigers Subject – Environment Context – NCBS study of ‘black tigers’ has shed light on genetic mystery. Concept – Black tigers — the tigers whose stripes are almost fused together in patches threatening to obliterate parts of their burnished orange coats. An estimated 37% of Panthera tigris in the Similipal Tiger Reserve (in eastern India) are pseudomelanistic, characterised by […]