10 interesting facts about tigers
- The size of a tiger’s territory is dependent on the amount of food available in the area.
- Age: 10 years (wild), 25 years (captivity)
- Natural Habitat: China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sumatra, Tibet, etc
- Usually, it is around 10 to 30 square miles, but it might go up to 120 square miles also.
- Wild tigers can eat as much as 60 pounds of meat at one time.
- Tiger live alone and do not form groups. However, the territory of one tiger might overlap with that of another, especially of the member of opposite sex.
- Tiger cubs continue to remain with their mother till they are 2-3 years old. Thereafter, they leave to find their own territory.
- Usually, only one of ten hunting expeditions of a tiger becomes successful. So, it has to spend a lot of time in hunting.
- The footprints of a tiger are known as ‘pug marks’ and are useful for locating as well as counting the population of tigers.
- Tigers have excellent binocular and color vision. The night vision of a tiger is 6 times better than that of humans.
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