•    A tiger can only usually expect a one in twenty success rate when        bringing down prey.
•    On average a tiger can eat up to 60 pounds of meat at one time.
•    After a feed, a tiger will usually bury the remaining animal carcass      in an attempt to hide it from scavengers, and then exhume it for its      next meal.
•    All tigers have a similar marking on their forehead, which resembles      the Chinese symbol Wang, (King)
•    A tiger can go two to three days without eating.
•    A tiger can spend up to eighteen hours sleeping.
•    Tigers reach maturity and are ready for mating at the age of three.
•    Tiger cubs are blind at birth.
•    A tiger cub can gain 100 grams in weight per day.
•    Tiger cubs play fight with their siblings, which enables them to          gain strength and speed.
•    The tail gives the tiger extra balance when running and is also used      to communicate to other tigers.
•    The tendons in a tiger's leg are so strong that it has been known to      remain standing after it has been shot dead.
•    The tiger is revered in Chinese mythology and is said to have            magical powers.
•    It is believed in Chinese mythology that the tiger can take human        form.
•    We could lose the wild tiger in as little as five years time.
•    The tiger has only one predator...MAN!
•    A tiger sleeps around sixteen hours a day.


   An adult tiger defends a large area from all other tigers of the same sex. The primary resource of this territory is food. A female's territory must contain enough prey to support herself and her cubs. A male's territory, additionally, must offer access to females with which to mate. Thus, a male's territory overlaps with that of 1 to 7 females. Male territories are always larger than those of females. But territory size varies enormously and is directly related to the abundance of prey in a given habitat. For instance, Indian tigers in prey rich habitats in Nepal defend quite small territories: female territories average just eight square miles. At the other extreme, in the prey poor Russian Far East, Amur tiger female territories average 200 square miles. In both areas, male territories are proportionately larger.

     Except for a mother and her cubs, tigers live and hunt alone. But that does not mean they are not social. Scent marks and visual signposts, such as scratch marks, allow tigers to track other tigers in the area, and even identify individuals. A female tiger knows the other females whose territories abut hers; in many cases, a neighbor may be her daughter. Females know their overlapping males (and vice versa) and probably know when a new male takes over. All tigers can identify passing strangers. So, solitary tigers actually have a rich social life; they just prefer to socialize from a distance.