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tigers are very large, powerful yellowish-orange wildcats with black stripes and white bellies. they can weigh up to 700

Tigers are very large, powerful yellowish-orange wildcats with black stripes and white bellies. They can weigh up to 700 pounds! Tigers have large heads with long whiskers and small, rounded ears. . Appearance. No two tigers have the same pattern of stripes, just like no two humans have the same fingerprints. The tiger's stripes help the animal hide because the stripes blend in with the tall plants in its habitat..

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tigers are very large, powerful yellowish-orange wildcats with black stripes and white bellies. they can weigh up to 700

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    2. Tigers are very large, powerful yellowish-orange wildcats with black stripes and white bellies. They can weigh up to 700 pounds! Tigers have large heads with long whiskers and small, rounded ears.

    3. No two tigers have the same pattern of stripes, just like no two humans have the same fingerprints. The tiger’s stripes help the animal hide because the stripes blend in with the tall plants in its habitat.

    4. Tigers live only on the continent of Asia. The tiger’s home, or habitat, can be a rainforest, evergreen forest or even dry grassland. Unlike lions, tigers live alone for much of the year. Most tigers are nocturnal. Nocturnal animals are more active at night than during the day.

    5. Tigers spend much of their day resting. Because they are predators, tigers spend much of their night hunting. When they are stalking, tigers quietly sneak toward their prey.

    6. A tiger drags dead prey to a hiding place. It may eat 55 pounds in one meal! The tiger may return to the hiding place and eat many more times. The tiger’s prey may be almost anything: pigs, deer, antelopes, buffalos, elks, moose, bears, and wild cows.

    7. The female tiger, called a tigress, usually has two or three cubs every two years. Tiger cubs are blind and weigh just two and one-half pounds at birth. The female nurses the cubs on her milk for five or six months.

    8. By six months of age, the cubs begin to follow the tigress on hunting trips. The cubs learn how to kill by watching their mother. They begin killing some of their own prey by the time they are one year old. By two years, they are living on their own.

    9. Wild tigers have killed more people than any other mammal. Tigers that kill people are called man-eaters. Usually just old or sick tigers prey on people .

    10. The tiger is an endangered species. There are probably 4,000 wild tigers in Asia. Many of them are protected in preserves in Russia and India. These preserves are the tiger’s last chance at survival in the wild.

    11. Special thanks to our fifth grade helper: Horbalinda

    12. Special thanks to our wonderful photographer:Mrs. Carnevale

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