The cub of a white tigress who was born in June in a zoo of the Indian city of Chennaj, has began to change color and by the present moment all has turned black, writes The Times of India. For the first time this unusual tiger cub had been presented to visitors some days ago, and it became one of the most popular animals in the zoo.

According to representatives of a zoo, except color black tiger is no different from their white relatives. The state of his health is watched by experts, but they have assured that any essential changes in an organism of an animal it isn't observed also feels well.

Veterinarians believe that for the unusual color cub is responsible for 80 percent of the high content of melanin - the dark pigment in the fur of the animal. The color changed a great part of the torso and legs , and though on it still it is possible to notice strips, it completely will turn black, when will grow up.

Usually tigers over the black pigment is dominated by yellow, responsible for the color of the animal. It is this combination of colors can tigers survive in the wild, while their white relatives, as a rule, are born and live only in captivity.