Talk:Golden tiger

It would be better to rename the article "Golden tabby" either to "Golden Tabby Tiger" or to "Golden Tiger" (Golden Tiger is the most common term for the creature). "Golden tabby" is a color variety of Persian cat so the current article title just causes confusion.

Size data lacking
Golden tigers tend to be rather bulky individuals compared to normally colored tigers and even white tigers. I don't a source to back it up, but I heard that they average over 500 pounds. — 71.190.81.70 (talk) 21:16, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

30 cats worldwide figure
The 30 cats figure seems rather low to me. I work at a big cat rescue facility where we have 9 golden tabbies, and it seems unlikely to me that we have 1/3 of the world's supply. The source for this figure seems to be the external link at the bottom of the page,, which doesn't indicate where its information comes from, or when it was last updated. (The most recent date in the text is 2006, so at least since then.) If anyone can shed light on this, I'd be glad to hear it. Crysm (talk) 05:30, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Move to Golden tiger
User:20.133.0.13 started this talk page by suggesting (back in 2005) that this article be moved from Golden tabby to Golden tabby tiger or Golden tiger. The current title is confusing because of its use for domestic cats. The tiger variety is known as Golden tiger, Golden tabby tiger and Strawberry tiger. I propose to move this page to Golden tiger as Google suggests it is the most common term. ~ Kimelea   (talk)  21:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Move complete. ~ Kimelea   (talk)  21:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

'Not in the wild'
Suggest some kind of amending of article, as it baldly states initially they don't occur in the wild, then has a 'golden tigers in the wild' section, making the intro utterly false if that section's true.Laegjarn (talk) 06:04, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

This article is lacking citations for a lot the information. Therefore, the validity of the content is called into question. There are a few things stated in this article that are likely incorrect: "these cats never existed in the wild" or the population count at 30 for example. Digging through other peer reviewed resources may elucidate the information on the golden tabby tiger. Slegg101 (talk) 15:04, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Contradiction in "In the wild" section
The "In the wild" section (which lacks references) says both "The unusual color would provide these tigers with extra camouflage" and "Wild-born golden tigers might be disadvantaged as they are less well camouflaged than normal orange or red tigers." This is contradictory. It has apparently been this way since October 13, 2016, as evidenced in this post. 68.32.65.176 (talk) 03:14, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Reworked article
I entirely reworked the article... one tedious step at a time. It was very disorganized and had almost no citations, and lots of original research. I read every reference. I located citations where there were none before. As the article morphed and I learned more on the topic, I reorganized the article to make more sense. The lede is now fully sourced. The section "Captive breeding lines" could use more citations; it seemed logical from everything I read, but I gave up on nitpicking it.

The final section is actually a "List of" golden tigers (past and present). I decided not to make any judgment about the list or its entries but just made sure there was some sort of citation for each entry. I didn't get too picky about them being primary sources at this stage. Perhaps other editors would like to comment on whether or not there should even be a "List of" in this article. I'm sure readers would be happy to have such a list. I don't think there is any RS secondary source "list of golden tigers" on the internet that we could draw on.

— Normal Op (talk) 05:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you very much! Tqger (talk) 01:21, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Photograph
That photograph doesn't accurately portray the stark difference in colour between a Golden Tiger and a normal Tiger. Honestly, it just looks like an overexposed photo of a Bengal. Is there not a a photo in the public domain that has better lighting, or is a close up? Google "golden tiger", there are plenty of better photos to use as a reference for what one looks like in actuality. Tqger (talk) 03:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Strawberry tiger
Removed the part about this being called a "strawberry tiger". This term is not present in the provided source. Also, I guess this is a misunderstanding as there is a golden tiger in a zoo named Strawberry, the pictures of which are widely circulated on the Internet. --DustWolf (talk) 18:33, 23 December 2022 (UTC)