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Tiger facts

The tiger is one of the largest of the four big cats, and one that is very fascinating to people all over the world. It lives in wet, humid and hot jungles as well as icy cold forests. There are five different kinds or subspecies of tiger which are still alive today: Siberian, Indochinese, South China, Bengal, and Sumatran. Tigers can live in almost any climate. They need only shade, water and prey. They are found in the hot rain forest of Malaya, the dark thorny woods of India, and the cold, snowy, spruce forest of Manchuria. Source

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The tiger hunts alone, primarily between dusk and dawn, traveling six to 20 miles in a night in search of prey. A typical predatory sequence starts with a slow, silent stalk until the tiger is 30 to 35 feet from the selected prey animal followed by a lightening fast rush to close the gap. Hunting requires a lot of work for the tiger, it is successful only once in ten to 20 hunts.Source

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The white tiger

White tigers originated in the pure Bengal strain in India. Later in captivity Siberian was crossed in to make a bigger more impressive white tiger. They are very rarely found in the wild. In about 100 years only 12 white tigers have been seen in the wild in India. This specific tiger is neither an albino nor a seperate subspecies of the tiger. The striking white coat is caused by a double recessive allele in the genetic code, and only turns up naturally about once in every 10,000 births. Source

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White Tigers, Singapore Zoo.

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Tigers wrestling in the water.