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India: Hiker photographs black tiger for first time
- 09 December, 2020
- Abdelkader Doon
A photographer walking in eastern India came across a black tiger, which he was the first to photograph in real time.
Soumen Bajpayee will long remember his walk in the Nandankan Shrine in Odisha district. This Indian photographer knew that he would see wild animals, such as monkeys or tigers, protected in this area. But he had no idea that he was going to find himself in front of a species never photographed live, a black tiger.
"He came out of the woods, stayed for a few seconds, then went back behind the trees," he told The Sun, relayed by CNews. Just enough time to take pictures of the feline and its thick stripes, which he is the first to cross as well. Indeed, if we know that there are six specimens of this kind, they had been photographed only through photographic traps.
Our colleagues explain that this tiger is smaller than average, and is also called "melanic" tiger. The genetic variation that allows this black color is due to inbreeding, according to scientists. Soumen Bajpayee said he hoped that these tigers would reproduce among themselves, to perpetuate their peculiarity and avoid the extinction that threatens them.
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