Tiger

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A Bengal tiger.
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A Bengal tiger.
White Tigers in the Singapore Zoological Gardens.
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White Tigers in the Singapore Zoological Gardens.
Distribution of tigers.
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Distribution of tigers.

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large mammal, of the Felidae family. It originally lived in Asia.

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[edit] Appearance

Tigers are very large and strong, and the biggest feline. They have orange fur with black stripes, and a white underside.

Sometimes there are tigers with different colors. There are White Tigers that have white fur with black stripes, or that even have pure white fur. They have blue or green eyes.

[edit] Habitat

Tigers live in Asia, mainly from India to China and in Southeast Asia. Tigers usually live in the forest and rainforests.They also like to live under bushes and around where there is plenty of food for them to hunt.

[edit] Taxonomy

The tiger has 6 living subspecies, and 3 extinct (†) subspecies.

[edit] Tigers and Humans

Tigers are becoming very rare, because people hunt them for their skin and destroy the forests they live in. The Bengal tiger has the biggest population with 3,500 animals and the South-Chinese tiger has the smallest population with only 20 - 30 animals left.

[edit] Links

Look up Panthera tigris in Wikispecies, a directory of species


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