Tourists spot rare golden tiger in India: not a subspecies but a gene mutation

A group of tourists on a private safari in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kaziranga National Park in India spotted a golden tiger on January 24. The tiger is even rarer than the white snow tiger. The animal is not a subspecies of the Bengal tiger, but the result of a gene mutation that messes with the original orange-and-black stripes pattern.

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