what colour is a tigers skin

Tiger skin is typically the same color as the tiger’s fur: a warm orange or golden-orange coat with black stripes. The skin beneath the fur is usually pigmented in a similar way to the fur, so it tends to look orange-brown to tan when exposed (for example, in shaved or depigmented conditions). White tigers, which carry a genetic variant, have much paler skin and fur with blue eyes, giving a noticeably lighter appearance overall. These color patterns arise from pigmentation genes that control the production of pheomelanin (yellow- orange) and eumelanin (black/brown), with variations producing the common orange coat, white variants, or other possible byproducts like lighter cream tones.