Snowstalker

Snowstalker is an animal in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast Wars">Beast Wars</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation 1">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>

[[Image:|right|250px|thumb|She was Tigatron's "friend"... yeah right!]] The majestic predatory cat Snowstalker once prowled the distant frozen lands and mountaintops of prehistoric <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>. Like all members of her species, she was typically a loner, but a chance encounter with the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Maximal" title="Maximal">Maximals</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29" title="Predacon (BW)">Predacons</a> would change her life—and also prematurely end it.

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In a heated battle with the Predacons, an errant shot from Tigatron caused a rockslide on the mountain Snowstalker was climbing, and she was crushed to death. In his grief, Tigatron marked her final resting place with a cairn. At the time, he swore he would never be able to bury another friend and thus could no longer participate in combat of any kind, though he soon had to reconsider. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Law_of_the_Jungle" title="Law of the Jungle">Law of the Jungle</a></span>

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• White tigers are an extremely rare product of recessive genes,

and the very few individuals encountered in the wild have all inhabited humid tropical environments. Snowstalker (and thus Tigatron) may not represent a proper tiger as modern <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Humans">humans</a> would envision, but, rather, another big tiger-like cat that in the subsequent four million years has gone extinct. If indeed Snowstalker is part of a contemporary species of tigers, then it is also possible that she would have been the product of inbreeding, since mating a cub with its mother can also produce white tigers.