- 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 ∞
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