Tigers are the largest cat species and can reach up to 11 feet long and weigh 670 pounds. Their most recognizable feature is their stripes. Tigers are solitary and territorial carnivores that prey on deer, boar, and other large animals. They are considered endangered due to hunting and loss of habitat as forests are destroyed. While iconic symbols in culture, tigers face threats of extinction.

1. Tigers
by Cade

2. Tigers Scientific Info
Scientific Name: Panthera Tigris
Rank: Species
Higher Classification: Panthera
Lower Classifications: Bengal tiger, Siberian
tiger, Indochinese tiger

3. Appearance
Tigers are the largest cat
species and the third
largest land carnivore
behind the polar and
grizzly bears.
They can reach up to
eleven feet long and 670
pounds. their most
recognizable feature is
their stripes.

4. Diet
Tigers favorite prey are deer and
large boar. They eat all types of
deer and are also known to eat
fish, frogs, crabs, lizards and
young elephants.
Tigers are also known to eat livestock
and HUMANS.
Since they eat livestock and people it
has led to them being hunted.

5. Social patterns
Tigers are solitary creatures
who avoid contact with
each other except to
mate they drive other
tigers away from them.
Male tigers have very
distinct territories that
don't overlap whereas
female tigers will have
overlapping territories.

6. Habitat
Tigers live in the forest
of eastern china
they also live in
india and most of
indonesia and
sumatra

7. Scarcity
Tigers are endangered.
Tigers have been hunted for many
reasons chief among them their
pelts, they have also been hunted
to protect livestock.
Tigers are also dying out because of
habitat destruction. Tigers need a
huge amount of space and
because forests are being cut
down they no longer have they
space they need.

8. Tigers in popular culture
Tigers are the most
famous of the big
animals and are
often used in
cartoons such as
Disney's Tigger and
Dreamworks' Master
Tigress

9. Fun Facts
The name 'tiger' is taken from the Greek word tigris, a derivative of the Persian
word for arrow, referring to the animals great speed
Though tigers rarely form groups, when they do the proper name is a 'streak' of
tigers
Of all the big cats, only the tiger and jaguar are strong swimmers
They can swim up to 4 miles, and have been observed dragging their prey
across lakes
The oldest known tiger like cat is the Panthera palaeosinesis which lived about 2
million years ago
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The striped pattern is also found on the skin of a tiger, thus if one were to be
shaved it's unique camouflage pattern would remainA white tiger will only be
produced when both parents carry the rare recessive gene
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The gene for white tigers has been calculated to occur in only one out of
every 10,000 births
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10. White Tigers!
White tigers are a
genetic mutation in
which the orange
coloration of the
tiger changes to
white.
True white tigers have
blue eyes.
White tigers live in
Mongolia and