(This is an email received from a friend of mine)
These are incredible photos of a White Bengal Tiger named Odin.Odin is six years old and 10 feet long from tail to nose. Odin lives at a Zoo in Vallejo, California, near San Francisco.
Odin was hand-raised at the zoo. And after he was weaned, his British trainer Lee Munro discovered his remarkable skill.
Odin with his British trainer Lee Munro. He loves his baby bobbles....LOL
'He makes a funny face - and it's actually to close his nostrils to stop the water from going into his nose.'
Not all big cats enjoy the water but for Tigers from the hot climate of South-East Asia it's one way to cool down
Munro said tigers were the most powerful swimmers out of all land-dwelling animals.
Tragically, within our lifetimes, zoos might be the only places left to see these magnificent animals. A century ago there were about 100,000 tigers in the wild. Now there are just 2,500 adults, with the Bengal variety almost extinct. None has been seen in the wild since the last white tiger was shot and killed in 1958. White tigers are the most rare. They get their whitecolor from an unusual and extremely rare genetic combination.
