- They weigh 500 or more pounds, males weigh more than females.
- The head to tail length is 4.5 to 9 ft long. The tail its self can go from 3-4ft long.
- White tigers have blue eyes and they have 6 times better sight in the dark than humans.
- Tigers can expand their claws like house cats. scratches on trees are how they mark their territory.
- No two tigers have the same strip pattern. Siberian tigers have the least amount of strips out of all the other tiger subspecies.
- In the wild the average life span of a tiger is 10 years, in the zoo it is doubled.
- Baby tigers are born blind weighing 2-3 lbs.
- Baby tigers feed on milk for the first 6-8 weeks, after then the mother starts taking them on kills, but they do not start to have their own kills until 18 months.
- The head often has the Chinese symbol for wang or king on their forehead.
- Both parents must have a 'white' gene for the babies to be white tigers. The mother can give birth to up to 5 cubs. The reason they are white is because they have a genetic condition called leucism
- They are very good swimmers
Habitat-India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, are one of the few places that tigers still are located. They like to live in tropical forests, mangrove swamps and moist jungles that generally support dense vegetation and have a good source of fresh water.
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