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Females signal that they are ready to mate by leaving scent marks and scratches on trees. A breeding pair may stay together for up to a week, however, the female will raise her cubs alone. Difficulty: Easy.

 

by howling, by waving their tails, by rolling around on their backs

The Indochina tiger is found in South-East Asia. The Sumatran tiger is found in Sumatra while the Siberian tiger is found in Russia. The South China tiger is found in China. The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India. Difficulty: Hard.

 

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, None of these

The tiger lives across Asia but more specifically India, Bangladesh, Russia, Sumatra, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China. The tiger, jaguar, leopard and lion are the only cat species that roar, due to the structure of their hyoid bone at the back of their neck. Tigers have distinctive stripes across their body which they use as camouflage in tall, long grasslands. No two tigers are identical. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Europe, Africa, South America

Males reach sexual maturity at around five years of age while females are able to breed at around four years. Difficulty: Hard.

 

one year, two years, ten years

Siberian tigers are the largest cats in the world. They can grow up to 10.5 feet long, and Siberian tigers weighing up to 700 pounds have been recorded. They can be found in the snowy regions of eastern Russia and northeastern China. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Bengal tiger, Malayan tiger, Sumatran tiger

A tiger mostly lives in mangrove forests. Tigers are found swimming to cool themselves from the hot blazing sun, but their habitat is being destroyed by deforestation and the water bodies are getting polluted. Difficulty: Easy.

 

to regulate its fluidity, to regulate its sebaceous gland secretions, to regulate its lacrimal gland secretions

The word tigris roughly translates to mean "swift" or "arrow", describing the speed in which something is being driven along. Tigers are very fast land mammals, reaching 35-40 miles per hour to catch their prey. The Tigris river through south west Asia joins the Euphrates River before flowing into the the Persian Gulf. It is an important feature for transport and survival for the indigenous people living in the desert. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Roar, Hunt, Beast

Sadly, all of the Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers are extinct. Bali tigers were extinct around the 1940s; Caspian tigers were extinct around 1970, and the Javan became extinct in the 1980s. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Bali, Caspian, Javan

Females are only receptive for between three and six days, so engaging in the act of mating several times over a short time-frame increases the female's chance of having cubs. Difficulty: Easy.

 

because it's fun, no-one knows, it increases the male's fertility

The South China tiger's scientific name is Panthera tigris amoyensis. The Sumatran tiger is Panthera tigris sumatrae. The Bengal tiger is Panthera tigris tigris, and the Indochinese tiger is Panthera tigris corbetti. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Indochinese tiger, Sumatran tiger, Bengal tiger

A tiger hunts alone at night. It has to work very hard as only one in 10-20 attempts is successful. Difficulty: Average.

 

it ambushes its prey from front and bites its neck, it ambushes its prey from front and bites its back , it ambushes its prey from behind and bites its back

The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) has made its home in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. It is believed there are less than 2,000 of these tigers left in the wild, with the majority being in India. They tend to have a red-orange coat with dark brown or black stripes and a white underbelly. The white tiger with black stripes can be seen in captivity, but these are not pure bred, but a cross between a Bengal and Siberian tiger. Bengals eat deer, wild boar and they have also been known to eat a human if no other food is available! Difficulty: Average.

 

Siberian, South China, Sumatran

THe scientific name for the tiger is Panthera tigris. The name for the leopard is Panthera pardus. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Tigris panthera, Pardus tigris, Tigris pardus

Nine subspecies of tiger were known around the world. Today, six are left and three are officially extinct: the Caspian tiger, the Bali tiger, and Javan tiger. Difficulty: Hard.

 

2, 5, 4

A tiger is a carnivore. The upper canines help it to tear the flesh of its prey. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Incisors, Molars, Premolars

The Amur is the 10th longest river in the world and runs between China and Russia. It was the main habitat for the Siberian tiger until its decline in numbers due to poaching and habitat destruction. The Amur, or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), has been known to weigh up to 700 lb, although their chunky body stands on fairly short legs. The rusty yellow colour fur with dark brown/black stripes is thicker in winter as insulation against colder climes. They feed on deer, wild boar and brown bear. They live in remote areas to keep away from humans although hunting still takes place. It is believed there are under 450 Siberian tigers left living in the wild. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Sunda, Pallas, Bay

Tigers that are white in color are called white tigers. Siberian tigers cannot be white tigers; White tigers are not albino, they are just Bengal tigers that are born looking different. White tigers usually have dark brown or reddish brown stripes. Difficulty: Hard.

 

a Siberian tiger, a snow tiger, an albino tiger

Tigers are the largest living species of cat in the world. Lions are the second-largest, followed by jaguars and then leopards. Difficulty: Average.

 

Jaguars, Leopards, Cougars

It's unlikely that you'd ever find a white tiger living in the wild. However, they're frequently bred in captivity, though there's a greater chance of birth defects including cleft palate and scoliosis. Difficulty: Easy.

 

gold, blue, black

The tigress takes care of the remaining cubs and suckles them. She teaches her cubs to hunt normally by playing games. Difficulty: Easy.

 

pint of the litter, punt of the litter, rint of the litter

We know the least amount about the Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni) than any other tiger because the subspecies was only classified in 2004. They were named after Peter Jackson, a tiger expert who contributed towards the 1999 conservation book "Riding the Tiger". The Malayan people call the animal "pak belang" which literally means "Uncle Stripes"; the name repeated through generations in old folklore stories. Only about 500 Malayan tigers remain living in the wild. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Black and brown bear, Giant beaver, Malayan orangutan

This is the time when the cubs will start leaving their mothers. They will seek out their own places to live and begin hunting independently. Difficulty: Hard.

 

eating solid food, breeding, learning to swim

Tigers are known to prey on deer most of the time, but may sometimes hunt monkeys, wild boars, or smaller animals like frogs. Difficulty: Average.

 

Monkeys, Frogs, Boars

The Jacobson's organ is used to pick up the scents of the boundaries of their territory. With this organ, it knows when it enters another tiger's territory or vice verse. Difficulty: Hard.

 

in its nose, in its ears, in the middle of the eyebrows

The Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) can be found in south west China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. They have a deep orange coat with thin black lines and can be located in remote hilly terrains which make it an additional challenge for the poacher to catch them. Conservationists are fighting against old Chinese myth and tradition as it is believed the ground down bones of tigers have strong healing properties. Access is restricted to explore the Indochinese tiger habitat but there could be as few as 300 living in the wild. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Fur trade, Food, Taxidermy

The eyes of a tiger are in the front of the head. This adaptation helps it to judge distances better for being a predator. Difficulty: Hard.

 

square, vertical slits, triangular

The cubs are born in a den. After three to four months, they leave their sheltered birthplace and start exploring the big wide world. Their mother will spend the next two to three years teaching them important survival skills before they finally venture out alone. Difficulty: Hard.

 

thirteen months, seven months, ten months

A tiger hunts when it is night. It blends with the grass in order to hunt. Migration is the movement of going to warmer places in winter to escape the cold weather. Aestivation is the continuous sleep of some animals in summer to escape the heat. Hibernation is the continuous sleep of some animals in winter to escape the cold weather. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Migration, Aestivation, Hibernation

During the first year of life, there's a 35% mortality rate which is usually the result of floods, fire or cubs being killed by unrelated adult males. Difficulty: Average.

 

twenty-one, fourteen, twenty-eight

While the largest subspecies of tiger is the Siberian (Panthera tigris altaica), the smallest subspecies of tiger is the Sumatran (Panthera tigris sumatrae) which can be found on the island of Sumatra, hence its name.
Difficulty: Hard.

 

South China, Malayan, Bengal

It's a consumer. It eats other animals. So it is a secondary and in some cases, tertiary consumer. Producers are green plants producing food. Decomposers are bacteria and fungi who eat the decayed matter in the soil. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Decomposer, Producer, None of these

Many zoos and wildlife parks run a breeding programme to save the tiger from extinction. There are also charities set up throughout the world to help fund breeding of these majestic animals. Actions are being taken to save the tiger, but is it too late?

http://www.savetigersnow.org/ Difficulty: Easy.

 

When the White Tiger constellation is next visible to the naked eye, The 1000 year birthday of the famous Chinese philosopher, Confucius, The year when the Chinese space station is due to be launched

A group of tigers is called a streak. Although tigers are solitary animals, which means they prefer to live and hunt alone, there is a name for a group of tigers. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Pride, Pack, Herd

India is home to more wild tigers than any other country. India's national animal is the tiger. Figures on the numbers of wild tigers range from about 2,000 to 8,000 today, with 4,000 being the general consensus. Difficulty: Hard.

 

China, Bhutan, Indonesia

Caspian tigers are an extinct subspecies, but its scientific name is Panthera tigris virgata. They are the largest of the three extinct tiger subspecies. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Bali tiger, Javan tiger, Malayan tiger

Habitat loss and poaching has reduced the number of tigers in the wild substantially, with 93% of their previous habitat now having no tigers at all. All tiger subspecies are endangered, but the most critically endangered is the South China tiger. Many organizations are trying to put a stop to poaching, and trying to preserve tigers in the wild. Tigers are beautiful animals that should never be hunted for our own benefit. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Indochinese, Siberian, Sumatran