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Tiger Facts
Common Name:
Tiger
Species:
Panthera tigris
Diet:
Carnivore; deer, elk and small animals?
Weight:
200-800 pounds
Height at shoulder:
2.5 - 3.5 feet
Body length:
5-10 ft. (nose to tail tip)
Tail length:
24-36 inches
Subspecies:
4? left out of 8
Range/Distribution:
Asia: China to Siberia
Lifespan:
About 15 years in the wild; 20+ years in captivity
AWESOME POWER and SPEED!
POWER: One of the most powerful land carnivores in the world (exceeded in strength but not speed by the Kodiak bear), the tiger is a massively built cat of awesome size and power.
The Siberian Tiger is the largest cat in the world. The biggest one ever recorded was 1,025 pounds, while the average weight for male Siberian Tigers is 500-900 pounds. Male Siberian Tigers are usually about 3.5 feet tall at the shoulder and about 13 feet long from nose to tail.
SPEED: The Siberian Tiger can run up to 50 miles per hour over the snow if they want to. That's only 10 miles per hours slower than the cheetah (the fastest cat in the world)!
Elegant Looks!
Its distinctive coat is white to orange-brown with black, brown, or grey stripes. Its small round ears have black backs with a central white spot. The males of some subspecies sport side whiskers. The tiger is the only truly striped cat, with a completely non-agouti coat. All other striped cats are tabbies.
A skillful Hunter!
The tiger is very territorial and must have huge area to hunt. While hunting a tiger may travel up to twelve miles. It hunts by night, from the ground, and seeks game of all types. Through tigers are skillful hunters, only about 1 in every 10 or 20 attempt is successful.
How a tiger hunts: Tigers crouch, crawl, pounce, and sprint to their prey where they jump onto it's back. When the animal falls the tiger bites the animals neck until it dies. The tiger is an excellent swimmer. It will occasionally stalk livestock when other prey is scarce, and this has made it the enemy of goat and cattle raisers.
Range/Habitat:
Range: The tiger may be found in all types of terrain of southern and south-eastern Asia and of eastern Asia northward to Mongolia and Siberia.
Habitat: Tigers can live in a variety of habitats. They do need adequate cover to be able to ambush or stalk their prey, and are therefore usually found in forested areas.
Habits:
Solitary, tigers avoid their own kind, except at mating season. Territory sizes vary much in size. A male's can go from 60 to 500 square miles, and a female's can be from 20 to 200 square miles. A male may have many female's territories in their own, but a male's territory never overlaps with another male's territory. Usually, if a male enters another male's territory, they will fight. Tigers will mark their territories by either scratching trees or defecating around the border. Tigers will usually keep the same territory their whole lives. They will only move if food is scarce or another tiger beats them in a fight.
Population: Vanishing from the Wild!
Just 100 years ago there were as many as 100,000 tigers roaming the earth. During the past 63 years 4 subspecies have become extinct! They were known as the Bali, the Javan, the Caspian and South China Tiger.
Today there are only 4 subspecies of tigers remaining.
- Siberian Tigers: 150-200 in Russia.
- Sumatra Tigers: Maybe 300 in Indonesia
- Indochinese Tigers: Around 1000-1750 in Thailand and surrounding countries
- Bengal Tigers: Approximately 2800-4700 Bengal Tigers In India
Tigers are being slaughtered to the point of extinction. We must all do our part to save these magnificent animals. The reasons tigers are rapidly vanishing from large portions of its natural habitat are: Poaching, Habitat Destruction, and the effects of Isolated Forest Patches on tiger populations.
Resources: All tiger infomation was gather on the Internet at various websites.
Please check out our Tiger Links page.
According to some
biologists,
Tigers may be EXTINCT in the wild by 2010!
Tigers Voice:
- Tiger Talking (41 KB wav file)
Tiger Voices are courtesy of Wild About Cats
Tigers Links:
Check out T&D's NEW Tiger Exhibit
Check out our Tiger Links page for Links to Tiger Information web pages.
Tigers at T&D's...
We now have 12 Tigers! The tigers are NOT allowed to breed! All are neutered/spayed or housed separated as they are too many unwanted ones in captivity.
Why? Because Tigers breed readily in captivity and their cubs are sold as 'cute pets' to people that don't know what they are getting into! The cute little cub grows rapidly into a large powerful cat that is always hungry for fresh expensive meat. Zoos have their own Tigers and will not take these now unwanted pets.
You are their hope. Help us to support these spectacular animals. Please contact us...
(570) 837-3377 or Email tdscats@csrlink.net.
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