The tiger is the biggest and the most terrible of large cats. Adult males of the Amur tigers reach in length more than three and a half meters and more than 315 kilograms weigh. Subspecies which live in tropical areas of an Asian area, slightly more small. For example, Bengalese tigers usually weigh no more than 225 kilograms. A sort this huge striped cat from the woods of Siberia, from Northern China...

In a zoo against a back wall of a cage the tiger strikes with coloring brightness — orange in a black strip. But serve in a native habitat of a strip as fine masking. In the high rights of the delta Gangi (India) royal, or Bengalese, the tiger becomes almost invisible as soon as he stiffens in an immovability. But even when it gracefully slides in whimsical shadows of the dense jungle, it is very...

Approach of a civilization to the woods and to their wild inhabitants compelled tigers to attack in India herds of a livestock. As a result they got reputation of blood-thirsty and spiteful creatures, and on them began to hunt with such diligence that almost completely them exterminated. Actually tigers kill to live, and only. For hunting the tiger almost always waits for nightfall, and then looks...

The tiger in our country leads mainly twilight life: though he also hunts at any time, but most often after a sunset and in the first half of night, and then at sunrise. Tigers transfer a heat badly and in India, for example, for hunting usually come on a sunset and hunt all night long, slowly bypassing grounds on tracks.

Each tiger has the individual site in the territory of which he also hunts. The...

It appeared that these striped predators are capable to make sounds of very low frequency which enter the victim into a condition of a trance. Scientists found out that tigers use infrasounds also to frighten the production.

The tigerish roar can instantly enter other animal, and even the person, into a condition of a temporary katalepsiya. Zoologists who studied behavior of tigers during hunting came...

A number of factors prevents a tiger to commit an assault successfully.

These are the sensitive small pillows of paws which aren't allowing a predator to run on hot stones and the crossed district without receiving burns and wounds.

Also, stirs successful hunting inability of a tiger to continue a pursuit. While the cheetah can run bigger distance and at great speed, the tiger does two, at best three...

Despite numerous abilities of tigers, only one attack of a predator from 20 is successful. And though the indicator quite low, is quite enough of it if in the territory of a tiger is found many animals who are his production. It explains importance of encouragement of the person not to destroy in a large number of individuals on whom the predator feeds. However in the territory with a low number of...

Females become sexually mature in three years, males - in four. Techka at tigresses happens at all seasons of the year, and then a forest jungle is disclosed by a roar of suffering males.

Adult males of a constant den, as a rule, have no and have usually a rest near the production. The tigress suits a den for tiger cubs in the most remote and, thereby, the safest place. It approaches a den carefully...

The Amur tiger - one of the most rare representatives of world fauna. As the object of the first category of threat of disappearance, it is brought in Red Lists of the International Union of conservation and Russia, and also, included in the Appendix II of the Convention on international trade in the types of wild fauna and flora which are under the threat of disappearance (SITES). In the south of...

It would seem that we only don't know about dumb animals in general and about tigers in particular. For a long time included in the Red List, they are everywhere registered and under strict control not only professional naturalists, owners of national reserves, but also the international organizations. In some areas of the planet where tigers live, them it is observed from satellites that allows to...

Tiger - to whom the polosata a huge cat isn't familiar? The imagination draws at once the jungle of India or a cedar taiga of Primorye. The area of this animal is huge: from the South of Eastern Siberia to islands of the Malay Archipelago. Tigers from different edges are unlike one another. In various geographical areas cross-striped coloring of a tiger varies, and it forms the basis for allocation...

The Caspian tiger - one of eight described types. But whether you were interested sometime why the Caspian tigers aren't present in a zoo? Before to answer this question, it is necessary to tell about these majestic cats and their origin in more detail.

Tigers were widespread in Asia already one and a half million years ago. However, according to assumptions of the last genetic research, they almost...