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 Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:03 am
Hello and welcome to my, Moon.Mage.Raein's, quest for twin tiger girls! Now I've always loved felines and wildcats are my all time favorite animals. (With the white tiger being my ultimate favorite, not counting the mythical/extinct Maltese tiger) So, why not have fun little girlies that are tigers to play with? 83 This being hella expensive, I don't expect to finish this quest sometime this millennium. ;D But here's my quest thread anyways, and if I ever get my hunnies, I'll definitely want RP with you. ;o heart By the by, my banners are obnoxiously large. Get over it. n____n Wish me luck! <33  THIS IS MY MUSE/INSPIRATION!!!! 8DDDD
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:13 pm
 1. Introduction 2. Table of Contents 3. Disclaimer 4. The Guardian 5. Chocolate Koubashii 6. About Bengal Tigers 7. Vanilla Koubashii 8. About White Tigers 9. Concept Art 10. Funds 11. Artist's Corner 12. Back-Up Ideas 13. Completed Quests 14. Reserved 15. Credits
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:15 pm
 Okay, in the past I've seen people whining/complaining/problems over quest threads and the idea of them...mostly because they don't understand that making a quest thread does not "claim" an animal. I know that and if you have the funds before me, go ahead and get a bengal or white tiger. I'll just be upset if you a) steal my idea or b) do it just to annoy me. razz But anyhoo, I also want to address in this post the topic of tigers in general. I know, everyone loves tigers. Who doesn't? And Gaia B/C pets based on them are made of win. I'm just saying, if you're looking to quest for tigers as well, there are plenty more species for you to quest for! I mean, its alright and I can't stop you if you have to have to have to have to get a bengal or white, but there are lots of other pretty tigers that you could quest for as well. (Snow, Strawberry, etc.)
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:22 pm
Ichigo Koubashii Coming soon! Click here to see her in all her 2D goodness!
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:26 pm
Chocolate Koubashii Name:Gender:Animal:Hairstyle:Hair Colour:Skin color:Clothing: (Note: At toddler stage they start off in simple clothing. Skirt for girls, shorts for boys. Or nothing... XD D-corp is cheap. So this is to merely specify colors, design, etc.) Personality:Markings:Eye color:Eye style:Pose:Extra:
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:28 pm
 Bengal Tiger - Wikipedia The Bengal tiger, or Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris or Panthera tigris bengalensis), is a subspecies of tiger primarily found in Bangladesh, India, and also Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and southern Tibet. It has traditionally been considered the second largest subspecies after the Siberian tiger, but Northern Bengal Tigers are often larger than Siberian tigers. So far the heaviest Bengal tigers captured in Nepal for research have been heavier than recently captured Siberian tigers. It is the most common tiger subspecies, living in a variety of habitats, including grasslands, subtropical and tropical rainforests, scrub forests, wet and dry deciduous forests, and mangroves. The Bengal subspecies P. tigris tigris is the national animal of Bangladesh, while at the species level the Tiger Panthera tigris is the national animal of India.
Male Bengal tigers usually measure 275–310 cm (9-10 ft) with their tail. The tail of a large male is usually 85–95 cm long. Their mass ranges from 180 to 273 kilograms (400-600 pounds), with an average mass of 200–235 kg (440–517 lb). The heaviest Bengal tiger ever reported was 389.5 kg (857 lb) and measured 323 cm (10.6 ft) between pegs. This tiger was shot in Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, in 1967 by David Hasinger and is the heaviest tiger with reliable source. However, according to Mazak, the occurrence of those exceptional large tigers is debatable and not confirmed via reliable references. Records of even larger tigers exist, with the largest reported bengal tiger weighing in at 410kg although this is not confirmed and thus not reliable. Females are considerably smaller and have an average mass of 141 kg (310 lb), but they can reach up to 180 kg (400 lb). Males have a maximum skull length of 330 to 380 mm, females 275 to 311 mm. Jim Corbett once shot a tiger called the Bachelor of Powalgarh, with a total length of 3.23 m "over curves" (3.10 m between pegs), thought to be "as big as a Shetland pony" by the famous hunter Fred Anderson. Pictures of this cat documented that it was indeed a very large tiger.
The fur of this subspecies is generally orange-brown with black stripes, although there is a mutation that sometimes produces white tigers, as well as a rare variation (less than 100 known to exist, all in captivity) called the Golden Tabby as a white coat with golden patches and stripes that are much paler than normal.
Bengal tigers hunt small-sized and large-sized animals, such as wild boar, barasingha, chital, nilgai, gaur, water buffalo, Domestic Water Buffalo, Rhinoceros, foxes, and they also feed on fish and other animals. They sometimes prey on smaller animals such as hares, monkeys, langurs or peacocks, and carrion is also readily taken. Bengal tigers have also been known to prey on young Asian Elephants and rhino calves in rare documented cases. For instance, the World Wildlife Fund is fostering an orphaned rhino whose mother was killed by a tiger. Famous Indian hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett described an incident where two tigers fought and killed a large bull elephant. Bengal tigers have also been known to take other predators such as leopards, wolves, jackals, foxes, crocodiles, Asiatic Black Bears, Sloth bears, and dholes as prey, although these predators are not typically a part of the tiger's diet.
It is said that the Bengal tiger almost always preys on smaller animals such as deer and boar, but this is incorrect, though, since it is a solitary hunter, it needs to be very strong to enable it to take down large prey such as gaur and water buffalo. Bengal tigers prefer to hunt mostly by day, but are awake in the nighttime. During the day, the cover of the tall "elephant grass" gives the feline excellent camouflage. Bengals kill prey by overpowering their victim and severing the spinal cord (preferred method for smaller prey), or applying a suffocation bite of the throat for large prey. A Bengal tiger will usually drag its kill to a safe place to eat away from possible predators. Despite their size, Bengal tigers can climb trees effectively, but they are not as adept as the smaller leopard, which hides its kills from other predators in the trees. Bengal tigers are also strong and frequent swimmers, often ambushing drinking or swimming prey or chasing prey that has retreated into water. The Bengal tiger can consume up to about 30 kg (66 lb) of meat at a time and then go without eating for days. These tigers normally hunt deer or anything above 100 pounds, but when driven to hunger, it will eat anything, such as frogs, fowl, crocodiles, domestic livestock and sometimes humans. Bengal Tigers are apex predators and have no natural predators outside of man.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:31 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:33 pm
 White Tiger - Wikipedia White Tiger (Panthera tigris) is a tiger with a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment in the normally orange fur although they still have dark stripes. This occurs when a tiger inherits two copies of the recessive gene for the paler coloration: pink nose, grey-mottled skin, ice-blue eyes, and white to cream-coloured fur with black, grey, or chocolate-coloured stripes. Mr. H.E. Scott of the Indian police gave this description of a captive white tiger's eyes-"The colourings of the eyes are very distinct. There is no well defined division between the yellow of the comex and the blue of the iris. The eyes in some lights are practically colourless merely showing the black pupil on a light yellow background." (Another genetic condition also makes the stripes of the tiger very pale; white tigers of this type are called snow-white.)They are an endangered speices.
White tigers do not constitute a separate subspecies of their own and can breed with orange ones, although all of the resulting offspring will be heterozygous for the recessive white gene, and their fur will be orange. The only exception would be if the orange parent was itself already a heterozygous tiger, which would give each cub a 50% chance of being either double-recessive white or heterozygous orange.
Compared to orange tigers without the white gene, white tigers tend to be larger both at birth and at full adult size. This may have given them an advantage in the wild despite their unusual coloration. Heterozygous orange tigers also tend to be larger than other orange tigers. Kailash Sankhala, the director of the New Delhi Zoo in the 1960s, suggested that "one of the functions of the white gene may have been to keep a size gene in the population, in case it's ever needed."
Dark-striped white individuals are well-documented in the Bengal Tiger subspecies (Panthera tigris tigris or P. t. bengalensis), may also have occurred in captive Siberian Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), and may have been reported historically in several other subspecies. White pelage is most closely associated with the Bengal, or Indian subspecies. Currently, several hundred white tigers are in captivity worldwide with about 100 of them in India, and their numbers are on the increase. The modern population includes both pure Bengals and hybrid Bengal–Siberians, but it is unclear whether the recessive gene for white came only from Bengals, or from any of the Siberian ancestors as well.
The unusual coloration of white tigers has made them popular in zoos and entertainment that showcases exotic animals. The magicians Siegfried & Roy are famous for having bred and trained white tigers for their performances, referring to them as "royal white tigers" perhaps from the white tiger's association with the Maharaja of Rewa.
It is a myth that white tigers did not thrive in the wild and India once planned to reintroduce captive bred white tigers to the wild, to a special reserve which was to have been created near Rewa. In the wild white tigers bred white for generations. A.A. Dunbar wrote in Wild Animals Of Central India (1923) "White tigers occasionally occur. There is a regular breed of these animals in the neighborhood of Amarkantak at the junction of the Rewa state and the Mandla and Bilaspur districts. When I was last in Mandla in 1919, a white tigress and two three parts grown white cubs existed. In 1915 a male was trapped by the Rewa state and confined. An excellent description of the animal, by Mr. Scott of the Indian police, has been published in Vol. XXVII No. 47 of the Bombay Natural History Society's journal." The previously mentioned article from The Journal Of The Bombay Natural History Society "Miscellaneous Notes: No. 1-A WHITE TIGER IN CAPTIVITY (with a photo)" states "The white tiger in captivity in Rewa was caught in December 1915 in the jungles of the State near Sohagpur. He was about two years of age at the time. There were two more white tigers in Southern Rewa related to this tiger but it was believed that the mother of this animal was not white." "These white tigers roam in the neighboring British Districts of the Central Provinces and seem to be living in the Maikal ranges of mountains." There is ample evidence that white tigers survived as adults in the wild. The entire article is available at http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/tigers-white.htm . Jim Corbett filmed a white tigress in the wild which had two orange cubs. This film footage was used in the 1984 National Geographic movie "Man Eaters Of India", which is based on Jim Corbett's 1957 book by the same title. This is further proof that white tigers survived and reproduced in the wild.
Inbreeding white tigers in captivity to promote white pelage may result in birth defects.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:34 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:36 pm
Normal twins customItem [Price] Item [Price] 50k in Gaia Gold ----------------------------------------------------------------- 50,000/ 2,000,000or $0/ $250 in American dollars
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:00 pm
[AKA How I am pitifully trying to entice gold into my pockets]
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:05 pm
 ~Maltese Tiger girl (2 mill) ~Trumpeter Swan girl (1 mill) ~Great Pyrenees boy (1 mill) ~Sun Bear girl (1 mill) ~Blue Footed Booby girl (1 mill)
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:07 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:09 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:11 pm
 D-Corp (c) Arafel/Freize All art (c) Their respective artist/photographer Banners (c) Moon.Mage.Raein Creative ideas (c) Moon.Mage.Raein Information (c) Wikipedia
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