32 Interesting Facts About Tiger

Let me get straight to the facts.

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1. A tiger is strong enough to drag an animal carcass that would require 13 adult men to move.
2. The tiger is the largest land mammal that eats nothing but meat.
3. Adult tigers weigh 165 to 570 pounds and are 7 to 12 feet in length.
4. A tiger can live up to 20 years in a zoo. Wild tigers rarely live longer than 10 to 15 years.
5. Tiger habitats have declined by as much as 40% since 1995.
6. Tigers have only about a 1 in 20 success rate in bringing down prey.
7. Baby tigers remain with their mothers until they are about 2 years old. From that time on they live alone.
8. A group of tigers is called a Streak.
9. The largest recorded tiger was a Siberian tiger weighing an amazing 1,025 pounds.
10. White tigers are not albinos. They have brown stripes and blue eyes.
11. In the last 100 years, the number of tigers has declined by 95 percent.
12. Tiger stripes are just as individual as human fingerprints.
13. Tigers have been hunted almost to extinction by poachers for use in exotic Oriental medicines, none of which has been proven to work.
14. The tiger's closest relative is the lion. Their body structures are almost identical.
15. Tigers can be found in India, Russia, southern China, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra.
16. The tiger is the most endangered of all big cat species.
17. A tiger has five toes on each of its front paws but only four toes on its back paws.
18. An adult tiger will eat 33 to 40 pounds of meat in a night. A tiger can go about 3 days without eating.
19. There are fewer than 6,000 wild tigers left in the world. There are more Siberian tigers in zoos than in the wild.
20. Tigers often drag their prey into the water to eat.
21. Tigers have night vision that is six times better than that of humans.
22. Tigers are good swimmers and like to cool off by sitting in water holes with the water up to their necks.
23. Only 20% of wild tigers survive to adulthood.
24. The tiger's only natural enemy is man.
25. A tiger's tail is about four feet long on average, or half the length of its body.
26. Of the five surviving species of tiger, only Bengal tigers purr.
27. A tiger is very territorial, and will defend an area of 8 to 400 square miles from all other tigers of the same sex.
28. The vast majority of tigers are Bengal tigers. Most of them live in India and Bangladesh.
29. Tigers are the largest members of the cat family - even bigger than lions.
30. Sumatran tigers are the smallest variety; Siberian tigers are the largest.
31. Tigers live in many different environments, from the steamy jungles of India to the icy forests of Siberia.
32. A tiger's saliva is antiseptic and very handy for cleaning the tiger's wounds.

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