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