A CREATION of extraordinary beauty and power, a masterpiece of dynamic sculpture: this description corresponds to the tiger. Its black stripes characterize a fur varying in color from brown to orange-red. These dark stripes also work as a great camouflage as they blend in perfectly with tall grass or forest or jungle lights and shadows. Unlike the general color of the animal, the whitish parts are: the belly, the neck, the inside of the legs and spots on the head.
The tiger is so closely related to the lion that the two animals have been successfully paired up in zoos. The offspring of a tiger and a lioness are known as Tiglon or Tigon. A liger is the son of a lion and a tiger.
Including the tail, an adult male tiger can be around ten feet long and weigh between 180 and 225 pounds. The female is about a foot shorter and weighs about 45 pounds less. In addition to height, the adult man may differ from the woman with long hair on the cheeks.
Excellent swimmers, tigers love to go into the water in hot weather. Under certain circumstances, a tiger can swim far from island to island in search of prey.
The strength of the tigers is simply amazing. They are known to pull animal carcasses weighing 225 kg or more hundreds of meters away. The jumping ability of this creature is also amazing. A tiger can travel a distance of almost five meters in a single jump. A tiger reportedly jumped over a six-foot barrier and grabbed a man. The animal then returned to the enclosure with the victim in its mouth without difficulty.
Tigers usually hunt alone at night. The animal can handle wild bulls, wild boars, deer, antelopes and sometimes even elephant calves. But it's not limited to big changes. The tiger's diet can also include monkeys, fish, frogs, turtles, and grasshoppers.
The animal's taste for porcupines sometimes leads to serious injuries. Hedgehogs stuck in the legs or under the legs can prevent a tiger from getting out and killing larger prey. If the stakes penetrate the jaw, the tiger is doomed to starvation.
In order to meet their dietary needs, tigers must hunt intensively. Caged zoos also consume large amounts of meat. Even if it is only going back and forth in its cage, a tiger needs 4.5 pounds of meat per day.
Although lone hunters are tigers that are not hostile to their own species. Two of them can rub their heads in greeting and continue on their way.
Murderer of men
With rare exceptions, tigers avoid humans. Tigers respect and fear people, which is hard to explain. Even when a tiger is harassed by spectators or athletes, it usually only reacts when its patience is nearly exhausted. Usually, a man can walk in the habitat of a tiger without fear or obstacles.
Fear and respect for people is therefore part of the nature of the animal world, including tigers.
Of course, some tigers become murderers. However, it is proven that people are the main culprits. A taxidermist who examined the skulls of fifty human killers found that forty of them had gunshot wounds. Additionally, the depletion of the tiger's normal prey from human hunting or other activities can lead the tiger to attack humans and their pets. A tiger that begins to steal from people can pose a very serious threat. We know that an animal killed 127 people. another dropped 436 people.
Family life
During the mating season, the male and female are together for a relatively short time, less than two weeks, according to some naturalists. After a gestation period of just over three months, three to four pups are born. They are blind and very small and weigh only two to three pounds (one and a half pounds). Two weeks after the birth, her eyes open.
The two are generally alone. During that time, their mother taught them to hunt. To do this, you can stop the game and let it kill its cubs. But the male survival rate is not the best. Half of them can not live longer than the first year.
An animal in danger
Instead, without human disturbance, the tiger plays an important role in maintaining the current life balance of the creatures. Unfortunately, the existence of this beautiful animal is threatened. Humans reduced the tiger's normal prey and plundered its natural habitat. Six of the eight tiger species are at risk of extinction.
Naturalists are rightly worried. You do not want this dynamic sculptural masterpiece to be destroyed from its natural habitat. In the same way, people who value God's creative work do not want the tiger or animal to be wiped off the ground.
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