Tigers – bewitching the grace and beauty of a cat which can reach 3.5 meters in length and weigh more than 300 kilograms! Today in bondage of these animals is twice more, than meeting in wildlife, and 3 subspecies from 9 already disappeared from the face of the earth. In this article the interesting facts about tigers are absorbed.
The interesting facts from life of tigers
- These striped predators possess round pupils, unlike domestic cats at whom they have oblong shape. Besides, color of an iris most often yellow, and blue meets only at white tigers and it is quite interesting fact. It is all about genes, and they are guilty of what tigers with white wool often mow.
- Tigers live one by one and do not get off in groups therefore scientific name for such community, such as, a pride at lions, no. Territories of same-gender representatives are not crossed, and here the territory of a female can become the most part by the size of the territory of a male that allows animals to breed.
- By the way, about reproduction. Tigresses are ready to pairing only 4–5 days in a year, that is why are so difficult to breed these animals in bondage and to constantly fill up population. Besides a half of 2–3 tiger cubs in a dung does not live up to adult age.
- Surprisingly, but fact: tigers very much like to bathe and quite often float not one dozen kilometers in a pursuit of production.
- Paws these representatives of the cat family are so strong that allow them to make jumps on 5 meters in height and 6 meters in length. With one blow they can break to a bear a skull and break to it a backbone. And some animals are so strong that do not lose balance even after death.
- Though tigers and cats, but they are not able to purr. When the animal enough is also weakened, it squints and closes eyes. That is the big cat lets know that she feels rather protected.
- Tigers always attack from an ambush and is unexpected, and here if the animal understands that it was noticed, then retires. Therefore the people living with them side by side and forced to travel around the woods put on a mask that the striped cat did not attack them behind a nape.