| Fun Facts: |
| Tiger is the largest member of the cat family. |
| Tigers can live in almost any climate. |
| Female tigers, also called tigresses, can weigh about 300 pounds and get 8 feet long. |
| Tigers only need shade, water and food. |
| More than 100 white tigers live in the worlds zoos and all of them are descendants of the white cub caught in India in 1951. |
| More about my pet: |
| Threats |
| Distribution |
| The biggest threats to tigers are loss of habitat, loss of prey, commercial hunting, and human/tiger conflict. |
| Today only about 5,000-7,000 wild tigers live across Asia. The northernmost living tiger, the Amur or Siberian tiger, lives primarily in southeastern Russia. The South China tiger occurs only in southern China. The range of the Indochinese tiger extends across most of Southeast Asia. The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India, while the Sumatran tiger is restricted to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers have become extinct in the past 70 years. |
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| This is not really our pet but it is REAL. We had heard from our local homeschooling group that there would be a public showing of tigers, lemurs, baboons and other exotic animals not far from us so we took a field trip! What an exciting day it was! We learned about them and, as you can see, got to actually hold one. |