• you can hear a tiger roar from a mile away
  • can eat 100 pounds of meat in one night
  • have eyes that are the brightest of any other animal in the world
  • biggest cats in the wild
  • can live in hot jungles as well as icy cold forests
  • endangered species; only about 5000-7400 left in the wild
    • current subspecies alive today: Siberian, South China, Indochinese, Bengal and Sumatran
    • extinct subspecies: Bali, Javan and Caspian
  • like to live alone
  • their claws are retractable
  • most popular animal to have as a tattoo
  • most tigers have over 100 stripes
  • stripe pattern is unique to each animal
  • their skin (not just their fur!) is also striped
  • have a white spot on the back of their ears called an ocelli
  • white tigers have blue eyes, others have yellow
  • tiger's nightvision is 6x stronger than that of a human
  • South China tiger is considered one of the world's top 10 endangered species with only ONE sighting between the years 1983 and 2007
  • white tigers are produced when both parents carry the rare recessive gene
    • only occurs once in every 10,000 births
    • NOT albino as they have blue eyes, dark stripes and pink noses
may 2 2012 ∞
jan 8 2013 +