Fun tiger facts for kids

A lot of animal facts that people can share with others, which raises a broader and more interesting about them as below tigers for kids facts

1. Tigers hunt different types of deer, buffalo, antelopes, wild boars, baby elephant and rhinos and most other animals they can catch.
2. Tigers like to sneak up on their prey, they watch it then sprint to catch it. They bite their prey throat or back of the neck to kill it.
3. A tiger can eat up 60 pounds of meat but usually they eat less.
4. It can take a couple of days for the tiger to eat their entire prey. They will eat until they are full then cover the animal with leaves and dirt to hide it. When they are hungry again they will go back to finish eating.
5. Unlike other cats tiger like the water. They like to live by water. Tigers can swim up to 4 miles.
6. Like our fingerprints no two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
7. One averaged sized tiger can eat up to 60 pounds of meat at a single time. It is the largest land-living mammal whose diet consists mainly of meat… tigers require large areas with forest cover, water, and prey such as deer and swine. The tiger hunts alone, primarily between dusk and dawn, traveling six to 20 miles in a night in search of prey.
8. A tiger’s canine teeth can grow up to three inches long and are easily capable of crunching through the spine of any creature on Earth.
9. hen cover the animal with leaves and dirt to hide it. When they are hungry again they will go back to finish eating.
10. Unlike other cats tiger like the water. They like to live by water. Tigers can swim up to 4 miles.
11. Like our fingerprints no two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
12. Not only are tigers fur stripped but their skin is stripped too!
13. A tiger retracts their claws when walking. They do not leave claw prints in their footprints.
14. Tigers like to be alone except during mating.
15. Mother tigers give birth after approximately 100 days.
16. A mother can give birth to 1-6 tiger cubs. Usually they have 2-3.
17. A cub lives with their mother for 2 years.
18. Cubs learn to hunt from their mother and can catch prey at about 1 year old.
19. White tigers are very rare. White tigers are born with a gene that causes them to be white. Only 1 out of 10,000 tigers are born white tigers.
20. A group of tigers is called an Ambush or Streak.
21. Tigers can live up to 26 years in captivity and 10-15 years in the wild.
22. There are more tigers living in captivity than their are in the wild.
23. The only predator to a tiger is a human.

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