It has an orange fur, with black stripes. Most of the tigers have got over 100 stripes. The stripes are like fingerprints, and no tiger has the same pattern.
A tiger can be up to 3, 3 meters (11 ft), weight up to 300 kg (660 pounds). And it can have canines up to 4 inches long. A male tiger weighs up to 1.7 times more than a female.
The tiger is the biggest and strongest, now living animal in the cat family. Tigers are the heaviest cats found in the wild. Like other big cats, the tiger has a white spot on the back of its ears. They also have powerfully legs and shoulders.
Today there are 3,000 – 4,500 tigers in the wild.
Tigers have a lifespan of 10 – 15 years in the wild, but in captivity they can live longer than 20 years.
Subspecies:
Bengal Tiger
Indochinese Tiger
Malayan Tiger
Sumatran Tiger
Siberian Tiger
South China Tiger
Bali Tiger
Javan Tiger
Caspian Tiger
White Tiger
Diet:
In the wild tigers mostly eat larger and medium sized animals.
Tigers eat leopards, bears, crocodiles, rhinoceros and much more. Often they go after smaller preys, like monkeys, hares, frogs and crabs.
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