The Tashkent Zoo has a new unusual pet - a 10-month-old white tiger Fufunya. The nickname was coined due to the fact that he snorted and grunted a lot, the Podrobno.uz correspondent reports.

He was brought from the UAE kennel by the management company Wildlife care and will move into his cage tomorrow.

The white tiger is an individual Bengal tiger with a congenital mutation called leucismus. A tiger with black-brown stripes on its white fur and blue eyes is very rare among wild animals and very difficult to survive, since it is too visible to hunters and becomes prey to other animals.

White tigers live more comfortably and safely in zoos. After all, all conditions for keeping these vulnerable animals are created here. For example, additional shelters are installed for Fufuni so that he can hide in the heat.

Therefore, if when you come to the zoo, you do not see a tiger during the hot hours, it means he has hidden from this weather and is resting in a cooler room.