The tiger is the largest species of all cats. An adult tiger can measure nearly 3 metres from the nose to the tip of the tail, and can weigh more than 250 kg. Tigers can be differentiated easily since the pattern of stripes is unique to each individual.
Adult tigers are mainly solitary. However, sometimes 2 tigers with neighbouring territories may have a friendly interaction with each other. Tiger cubs follow their mother until the age of two. Even though the willingness to catch a moving prey is instinctive in tigers, a long learning process is needed to acquire the skills necessary to catch a wary and fast prey animal.
The world has already lost 3 of 8 tiger subspecies
Tigers are facing a serious danger of becoming extinct in the wild. During the last 100 years, their numbers have collapsed by 95% - from 100,000 tigers in the world in the year 1900 to the about 6,000 tigers that exist in the wild today.
