Tigers - Awesome Facts and Photos

• A tiger can eat up 60 pounds of meat but usually they eat less.
• It can take a couple of days for the tiger to eat their entire prey.  They will eat until they are full then cover the animal with leaves and dirt to hide it.  When they are hungry again they will go back to finish eating.
• Unlike other cats tiger like the water.  They like to live by water.  Tigers can swim up to 4 miles.
• Like our fingerprints no two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
• Tigers are in the cat family and is the largest cat in the world.
• A male tiger is called a Tiger.
• A female tiger is called a tigress.
• A baby is called a cub.
• They can weight between 250-700 pounds.
• They can be 6 feet – 11 feet long with a 3 foot long tail.
• Tigers can run up to 40 miles per hour and jump 16 feet high.
• A tigers roar can be heard over 2 miles away.
• They are the 3rd largest land carnivore (meat eating) in the world. Polar Bears are first and Brown Bears are second.

• Tigers like to hunt at night.  They have excellent eyesight for catching prey.
• Tigers hunt different types of deer, buffalo, antelopes, wild boars, baby elephant and rhinos and most other animals they can catch.
• Tigers like to sneak up on their prey, they watch it then sprint to catch it.  They bite their prey throat or back of the neck to kill it.
• Not only are tigers fur stripped but their skin is stripped too!
• A tiger retracts their claws when walking.  They do not leave claw prints in their footprints.
• Tigers like to be alone except during mating.
• Although tigers are powerful and fast over short distances, the Bengal tiger cannot outrun fleet footed prey such as deer. Instead it uses stealth to catch its victims; attacking from the side or the rear.
• Tigers use their distinctive coats as camouflage (no two have exactly the same stripes).