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Tiger
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Tiger
The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest and the most powerful of the four "big cat" in the genus Panthera
• Highly adaptable, tigers range from the Siberian taiga, to open grasslands, to tropical mangrove swamps.
• They are territorial and generally solitary animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey demands
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Range• During the 19th century the striped cats
completely vanished from western Asia, and became restricted to isolated pockets in the remaining parts of their range
• Today, this fragmented relic range extends from India in the west to China and Southeast Asia in the east.
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evolution
• The oldest remains of a tiger-like cat, called Panthera palaeosinensis, have been found in China and Java.
• The earliest fossils of true tigers are known from Java, and are between 1.6 and 1.8 million years old.
• Tigers first reached India and northern Asia in the late Pleistocene, reaching eastern Beringia), and Japan, and Sakhalin.
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Physical characteristic
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• Today, tigers are perhaps the most recognisable of all the cats
• They typically have rusty-reddish to brown-rusty coats, a whitish medial and ventral area, a white "fringe" that surrounds the face, and stripes that vary from brown or gray to pure black.
• Like other big cats, tigers have a white spot on the backs of their ears
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Subspecies
• There are nine recent subspecies of tiger, three of which are extinct
• The Bengal tiger• The Indochinese tiger• The Malayan tiger• The Sumatran tiger• The Siberian tiger• The South China tiger
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Bengal tiger
Indochinese tiger
Malayan tiger
Sumatran tiger
Siberian Tiger
South China tiger
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Colour variations~White tigers
• There is a well-known mutation that produces the white tiger, technically known as chinchilla albinistic,an animal which is rare in the wild, but widely bred in zoos due to its
popularity. • Recordings of white tigers were first made in the early 19th
century. They can only occur when both parents carry the rare gene found in white tigers
• They are distinct not only because of their white hue; they also have blue eyes and pink noses
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Golden tabby tigers
• In addition, another recessive gene may create a very unusual "golden tabby" colour variation, sometimes known as "strawberry“
• Golden tabby tigers have light gold fur, pale legs and faint orange stripes
• Both white and golden tabby tigers tend to be larger than average Bengal tigers. .
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