Genesis

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Tigers
By Genesis and Linet
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Appearance

• 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.

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Appearance

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

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Habitat

• Tigers live only on the continent of Asia. The
  tigers 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.

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Predators

• 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.

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Prey

• 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
  tigers prey may be almost anything pigs, deer,
  antelopes, buffalos, elks, moose, bears, and wild
  cows.

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Tiger Cubs

• 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.

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Tiger cubs

• 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.

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Man-eaters

• 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 .

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Endangered Species

• 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 tigers last chance at
  survival in the wild.

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• Special thanks to our fifth grade helper
• Horbalinda

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Special thanks to our wonderful
photographerMrs. Carnevale