Tiger Facts                           

Tiger Facts and Tiger Information Featuring the -AnimalStats- Fact File

Making More Tigers

Tigers will pair up for a few days when the female is in estrus. Her pregnancy takes 3 1/2 to 4 months. She delivers 3 to 5 cubs and moves them from hiding place to hiding place one at a time for the first few months of their lives. This is a dangerous time as she must leave them alone while she hunts. Males do not take part in the rearing of the cubs. Young tigers will not start to hunt for themselves until they are about 2 years old, and will begin to branch off from their mother around this time, slowly developing their own territory which they will mark by clawing trees, spraying urine and leaving strategic droppings.                -Tiger Facts

In a recent poll, the tiger was voted favorite animal in the world, beating out the humble dog by one percentage point. The Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger with their impressive size, spectacular coloring and breathtaking beauty have captured peoples imaginations for thousands of years. Unfortunately, capturing some of the tigers magic is a human obsession, and potions, remedies and good luck charms made from almost every tiger body part are big business. Tiger blood, crushed bones, and entire paws or skulls are highly prized to this day, and even as every sub-species of tiger is endangered in the wild, illegal poaching still goes on to supply the trade. Fortunately for the survival of the species, many people still like their tigers alive, and while less than 5,000 tigers survive in the wild, there are at least 60,000 in captivity, with over 10,000 kept as personal pets in the United States alone.                                

Tigers have the largest fangs in the animal kingdom, in tiger fact, the longest Siberian tiger teeth on record were over 4 inches. The extinct Saber-tooth tiger had fangs as long as 10 inches, theoretically to pierce the tough hides of wooly mammoth. That's nothing to snarl about!