Some interesting facts about tigers 🐅
Their are some very interesting facts about Tigers
- Their are 9 subspecies of Tigers
- Bengal Tiger
- Siberian Tiger
- Sumatran Tiger
- Caspian Tiger
- Malayan Tiger
- South China Tiger
- Indochinese Tiger
- Javan Tiger
- Bali Tiger
- The tiger is the biggest species of the cat family.
- The Heaviest wild Tiger on Record was a Bengal Tiger in northern india which weighed 388.7 kg (857 lbs)
- Tigers can reach a length of up to 3.3 metres (11 feet) and weigh as much as 300 kilograms (660 pounds)
- Many subspecies of the tiger are either endangered or already extinct. Humans are the primary cause of this through hunting and the destruction of habitats.
- Around half of tiger cubs don’t live beyond two years of age.
- Tiger cubs leave their mother when they are around 2 years of age.
- A group of tigers is known as an ‘ambush’ or ‘streak’.
- Tigers are good swimmers and can swim up to 6 kilometres.
- Rare white tigers carry a gene that is only present in around 1 in every 10000 tigers.
- Tigers usually hunt alone at night time.
- Tigers have been known to reach speeds up to 65 kph (40 mph).
- Less than 10% of hunts end successfully for tigers
- Tigers can easily jump over 5 metres in length.
- Various tiger subspecies are the national animals of Bangladesh, India, North Korea, South Korea and Malaysia.
- There are more tigers held privately as pets than there are in the wild.
- Tigers that breed with lions give birth to hybrids known as tigons and ligers.
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Nandita saha
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