TIGER
Tigers
live in hot jungles as well as in cold forests.
All wild tigers live in Asia. Some of them also live in the snowy
forests of Siberia. Others live in the
humid jungles of Sumatra. And some live
in the dry grasslands of India.
A TIGER
IS A POWERFUL JUMPER AND CAN EASILY LEAP TEN FEET (THREE METERS) OFF THE
GROUND. TIGERS CAN RUN 35 MILES PER
HOUR! THAT'S REALLY FAST. WHETHER IN THE
WILD OR IN CAPTIVITY, THE TIGER LOVES TO SLEEP!
Tigers
always live in forests because they offer places to hide. Tigers do not like big open spaces. Tigers like to hide, because they hunt by
sneaking up on their prey. If they
didn't have grasses or trees to hide behind they will never get food!
TIGERS
DO EAT PEOPLE-but only in very unusual situations! Sometimes people roam where tigers live. A sick or injured tiger finds it easier to
attack a person than to hunt for its usual prey.
People have found ways to protect themselves by wearing masks on the
back of their heads. Tigers only attack from behind, so the mask fools them. It seems
like the person is always facing them! Another method used to deter tigers is
Scarecrows- which gives electric shock so any tiger that touches the dummy gets a mild shock.
It helps teach tigers to stop attacking people. Tigers don't like becoming pets
because they are wild. Even captive cubs that have been raised by humans are not domesticated. Trainers in a circus use whip or chairs to scare
the tigers into subsmission.
White tigers are not a separate subspecies of tiger, they are not from
cold, snowy climates-they come from India. White tigers are a rare form of Bengal
tiger. They're regular tigers with whiskers and tails-they just happen to be colored
white. White tigers actually range from pure white to white with chocolate brown or black
stripes. Many white tigers have blue eyes, but some have amber or even greenish eyes.
White is a very, very unusual color for a wild tiger. Of the thousands of tigers
in the wild, only a few are white. There are many white tigers in captivity, though-and almost
all of them are descended from a wild white Bengal tiger named Mohan that was captured
in India in the 1950s.
Almost all of the captive white tigers in North America today are
descended from Mohan and are highly inbred. Some white tigers have also been mated with
other tiger subspecies, creating what are called hybrid tigers.
Article source:
http://projecttiger.nic.in/whatdoestigerlike.htm
