Black Tiger By LAwebTek
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Author: LAwebTek
Keywords: Real Animals
Date Released: 2003
Updated by Jordan - 6/27/07 - Changed lifespan and pruned for file efficiency
Current blcktiger.ztd dated 27 June 2007
File Size: 2.52 Mb
Compatibility: All Game Versions
Description: *Updated 4/26/2004* :
Improved Behavior Sets
Longer Lifespan
Delete the previous version from your updates folder if present.
Black Tigers tigers prefer solitary exhibits. Black tigers will eat almost anything they can catch.
Black (melanistic) colour is due to the non-agouti mutation. Agouti refers to the ticking of each individual hair on the background colour of a tabby cat. In certain light, the pattern still shows up because the background colour is less dense than the colour of the markings.
Other so-called black tigers are due to pseudo-melanism. Pseudo-melanistic tigers have thick stripes so close together that the tawny background is barely visible inbetween. One was shot in India in 1928 and another pseudo-melanistic tiger pelt was recovered in 1992. Pseudo-melanistic tigers are said to be getting more common; this may be due to inbreeding caused by habitat reduction. The observation that black tigers are smaller than normal tigers also suggests inbreeding. As humans require more space, tigers are forced into smaller areas with a smaller choice of mates; these conditions promote inbreeding and the perpetuation of anomalous patterns or colours.
In the mid-late 1700s, James Forbes painted a black tiger with even darker stripes. Similar tigers with faint markings have periodically been reported. These would correspond to the ghost markings seen on black leopards and black jaguars. A black tiger from the East Indies was apparently once housed at the Tower of London menagerie, but it was more likely to have been a black leopard. A jet-black tiger with no visible markings was apparently shot in India in 1915. Black tigers were reported in China in 1951, 1953 and 1957 (no information as to whether pseudo melanism or true melanism).
2003 LAwebTek
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Additional info:
blcktiger.ztd uca: 5E738026 dated 26 June 2007
Results From Configuration Checking:
5e738026.uca date: Tue Jun 26 21:14:18 2007
*** Warning: The [] section is unnecessary and could be removed.
*** Warning: uca/ai file contains the word 'Undefined'.
Animal Type: 5E738026
Black Tiger
Black (melanistic) colour is due to the non-agouti mutation. Agouti refers to
the ticking of each individual hair on the background colour of a tabby cat.
In certain light, the pattern still shows up because the background colour is
less dense than the colour of the markings.
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Animal Characteristics:
Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: China
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 95.
Preferred shelter: Rock Cave.
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can jump.
Animal can climb cliffs.
Exhibit Preferences:
Foliage:
Wild Olive Tree, Elm Tree, Pacific Dogwood Tree, Cherry Tree
Lodgepole Pine Tree, Maple Tree, Fir Tree, Thornless Mesquite Tree, Yew Tree
Spruce Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Globe Willow Tree, Japanese Maple Tree
Deciduous Bush, Weeping Willow Tree, White Oak Tree, Chinese Fir Tree
Pine Bush, Club Moss Shrub (DD), Walchian Conifer Tree (DD)
Dawn Redwood Tree (DD), Gingko Tree (DD), Glossopteris Tree (DD)
Lepidodendron Tree (DD), Magnolia Tree (DD), Norfolk Island Pine Tree (DD)
Bonsai (CC), Snowbell Tree (CC)
Rocks:
Large Rock, Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small
Deciduous Forest Rock - Formation, Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)
Exhibit Construction:
Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-3 with 35 squares for each adult.
Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 70 grid squares
Terrain (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
27 Snow, 11 Gray Stone, 4 Fresh Water, 28 Coniferous Floor
Foliage (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
8 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Chinese Fir Tree
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 8 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.
Rocks (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
6 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.
Elevation: Of the 70 squares, 3 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.