National Animal
Tiger
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stripes
stripes
Tigers are the only big cats to
have stripes and individuals can be identified by their pattern.But when it comes to predatory
adaptations, you wouldn’t expect a coloration of bright orange with black
stripes to be top of the list – in fact it might not be on the list at
all.
However, while we typically see
tigers in zoos, conspicuous against the green vegetation in their enclosures,
their main prey is ungulates, which cannot detect the range of colours that we
primates can. To an animal with comparatively poor vision, the cat’s bold,
contrasting colours are much harder to pick out in the long grass.
tigers eat
Tigers are savage vertebrates, and they for the most part eat huge prey like deer, wild pig and even elephant calves.
And yes, they have occasionally been known to kill and eat people, too. This
usually only happens when a tiger is old, ill or injured, and therefore unable
to catch their normal prey. In any case, when a tiger has a preference for human meat, they frequently must be murdered to ensure the nearby individuals.
tigers hunt
A tiger's preferred method for bringing down its prey is to rush at the creature's neck and hang on tight with its
powerful jaws. The prey will normally die from suffocation, but some might
bleed out first if the tiger’s canines sever an artery.
world’s biggest cat
Yes the Tigers are the biggest cat in the
wild Male tigers can grow to be over 3m long and weigh up to 300kg, while
female tigers tend to be a bit smaller.
In the event that you breed a male lion with a female tiger, you get a liger. These really gigantic felines have no equivalent in the advanced world, growing up to 3.6m long and being significantly heavier than even the greatest tigers – the biggest living feline, Hercules the liger, gauges near 420kg, and the record is an amazing 550kg.
tigers live
Tigers are relatively adaptable
and historically lived across huge swathes of Asia. There are currently not many left in South-East Asia, however they're doing generally well in India, Nepal, Russia
and Bhutan.Tiger living spaces differ by area, with the bigger tigers of colder northern locales (like the Siber Tiger) living in the brutal taiga, while
smaller tigers from warmer regions can happily live in arid forests, tropical
rainforests and flooded swamplands and mangroves.
Researchers think that India
holds around half of the world’s remaining wild tigers. There are several
Indian national parks that are renowned for their frequent tiger sightings,
including Bandhavgarh, Ranthambore and Kanha national parks.
tigers live for
In the wild, tigers have a 14 year life range. Once mature, they will spend most of their time living and
hunting alone, with the exception of females when they are raising their young.
tigers are left in the world
The surviving tiger subspecies
are the Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger,
Malayan tiger and Bengal tiger. It is believed that between all of those
subspecies, there are only 3,000 to 4,500 individuals left in the wild.
The Javan tiger and Bali tiger are tragically both idea to have been pursued to eradication. They were most
closely related to the Sumatran tiger (and may have even been the same
subspecies), which is still clinging on in Indonesia.
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