Tigers Pictures Facts

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Tigers are the biggest cats in the world and they live as in the wet, humid and hot jungles as in icy cold forests.

Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: tigris
Subspecies:

altaica (Siberian or Amur)
tigris (Bengal or Indian)
corbetti (Indochinese)
amoyensis (South China)
sumatrae (Sumatran)

Length: The largest of all the Tigers is the Siberian Tiger. Males are about 10 feet (that is 3 meters) long; the smallest tiger is the Sumatran Tiger; these males are 8 feet (2.4 meters) long.
Weight: Siberian tiger males weigh about 400 pounds and even more (181 kilograms); Sumatran tiger males are smaller and weigh only 220 pounds (100 kilograms).
Life span: 15 to 20 years in the wild, up to 26 years in zoos.
Gestation: about 103 days.
Number of young at birth: There are up to 7, but average is 2 to 3.
Size at birth: About 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram).
Age of maturity: 3 years old.

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Tigers Pictures Facts - Habitat

The original home of a tiger is China, but long ago they spread northwards into Siberia, westwards as far as the Caspian Sea, through India and Burma, and south to Sumatra, Java and Bali. These are usually solitary animals except when breeding, when a female is rearing her cubs, or when a group of young ones stay together for a short while after their mother has left them to fend for themselves.

Tigers Pictures Facts - Interesting Facts

Unlike most other cats, tigers enjoy water and when temperatures rise, they bathe to cool off. There are no two tigers that have the same pattern in their stripes. It's just like snowflakes, whale flukes and fingerprints. Tigers walk on their toes and have retractable claws on their paws like that of a housecat. There are five claws on their front feet, and four claws on the back feet. Tiger's back legs are stronger than their front legs; that's why they are good jumpers. Thus, Tigers can jump up to 33 feet in a single leap, depending on the size of the tiger.

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