Tigers
My Favorite Wild Animal. There use to be over 100,000 in the wild.
Conservation: In 1900 the tiger population of India was estimated at 40,000 to 50,000
by 1992 this number and had dropped to 1,850.
A good conservation program has increased it to 4,000 in 1996.
And now over 5000 in 1998
There are roughly 5,000 left. There our 5 subspecies.
White tigers are basically a color variant of the Bengal tiger
and are rarely found in the wild.
Most our found in zoos.
Distribution: The Bengal tiger is most numerous in the Sundarbans regions
of India and Bangladesh.
It is also found in northern and central India and in Burma and Nepal.
The Bengal tiger lives in Southern Asia.
It was hunted, captured, and poisoned to such an extent that is practically disappeared,
except in natural preserves and national parks.
It is now strictly protected.
Some males occupy a territory of 200 square miles.
When there is enough food, the tiger lives in a much smaller
territorty. It lives in the forest, the grassland, or the swamps.
Length: up to 10 feet - Weight: 400 to 575 pounds
Main Home: India and Southeast Asia
Lifestyle:
Habit: Solitary and nocturnal.
Life span: 15 years under normal conditions
Diet: Chital, wild boar, monkeys, guar, buffalo
The tiger attacks a variety of prey, mainly deer, antelopes, pigs and buffalo.
Once in awhile, it will attack cattle and even humans.
There are many stories about the evils done by "man-eating" tigers.
They're usually old tigers that are sick or wounded, and cannot hunt normally.
The destruction of their usual prey may also cause them to attack humans.
As soon as the tiger spots prey, it begins a slow and silent approach.
When it is near it's prey, it charges.
It may jump onto the prey's back or pin it down with it's powerful claws.
It usually kills the prey by biting it's throat or neck.
It's strength is amazing: it can drag a prey weighing several hundred pounds
as much as 1,500 feet to hide the dead animal in bushes or tall grass.
After killing prey, the tiger always starts feeding from the hindquarters first.
A tiger is a voracious eater.
It can kill the equivalent of 30 buffalos a year, and eat 65 pounds of meat in a night.
Tigers. unlike many others cats, often eat meat that has begun to putrefy.
The Siberian tiger, a cousin of the Bengal tiger, is the worlds largest cat.
The tiger lives in several lairs. In one of them the female brings her cubs into the world.
From the time they are 8 weeks old, they join their mother on the hunt.
At 6 months, they have learned how to kill.
They can feed themselves when they are 16 months old.
Number of young:1 to 5
Mating: Usually in spring
Gestation: 95 - 112 days
Did you know:
The roar of a Bengal tiger can be heard 2 miles away.
Bengal tigers purr. Domestic cats purr when breathing in as well as out,
tigers purr only when breathing out.
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