30 Extraordinary and amazing facts about tiger

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The tiger is my favourite of the big cats! I hope you enjoy these facts as much as I did.

1. Tigers are the largest naturally occurring specie of cats.

2. Of tiger subspecies, the Siberian Tiger is the biggest cat that can weigh well up to eight hundred pounds.

3. Tigers are very beautiful and their striped coat makes for ideal camouflage.

4. A tiger’s stripes are like fingerprints – no two are alike. In fact the stripes’ pattern is often used to identify individual tigers in the wild.

5. In India paw prints or pug marks are often used by local wildlife officials to identify individual tigers. However, this technique is now deemed to be flawed since an individual tiger may leave several different types of paw prints depending on its speed and terrain.

6. Tigers are largely solitary cats and are most active between dusk and dawn.

7. Tigers are largely muscular and rely on stealth and power to bring down a prey rather than speed. Like other big cats most tiger ambushes are unsuccessful.

8. Tigers are perhaps the most notorious big cat for man-eating. In fact the single greatest man-eater is history is believed to be the Champawat Tigress who killed over four hundred thirty people in India decades ago until she was finally killed by the great Jim Corbett.

9. Tigers are highly ferocious and unlike the laid back male lion, it’s never wise to turn your back to a tiger even in captivity. Even seasoned zoo keepers report tigers assume a stalking position and prepare to strike when they turn their back to them in the cage.

10. Tigers have suffered greatly at the hand of humans for their beauty and majestic appeal – they have been hunted nearly to extinction in most of their former territories – the largest pool is now in India where recent reports suggest there may be as few as fifteen hundred of the Bengal tigers remaining.

11. An adult male tiger in the wild requires around one hundred and fifty kilograms of meat a month.

12.They have a great fondness for water and are very strong swimmers.

13.Tigers feast on many different animals, depending on their territory. These include: antelope, boar, buffalo, camel, fish and horse.

 14. Interestingly, a tiger can go two weeks without feeding.

15.They can gorge up to 75lbs of flesh in one sitting.

16. A tiger’s method of killing prey is to stalk it, before ambushing and overpowering it, before biting.

17. Human behaviour can make the tiger feel threatened and attack humans. These are known as ‘man eaters’.

18. They can make horizontal leaps of up to 33ft.

19. Usually, in a litter of cubs, there are up to three, but as many as six can be born.

20. After fourteen days, the cubs will open their eyes.

21. A cub can take up to two-and-a-half years to separate from its mother.

22.Tigers are heavily endangered.

23. They are hunted for fur, meat, medicine and sport.

24. Save China’s Tigers are a conservation group, which is extremely successful at breeding and reintroducing tigers to the wild.

25. The Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh and India.

26. They are one of the Chinese Zodiac animals, depicting wood.

27. In Asian folklore, the weretiger is seen as a horrific and terrifying creature, replacing the werewolf.

28. Shere Khan was a deadly tiger in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894).

29.The breakfast cereal Frosties is sponsored by Tony the Tiger, who claims, “They’re grrrreat!”

30. Siegfried and Roy, the magical entertainers, closed their show after a confused seven year old tiger bit Roy’s neck and attempted to treat him like a cub.