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10 Cool Facts About Tigers

  1. Tigers are the biggest cat species and can weigh up to 660 pounds
  2. Tigers are the only cat species completely striped and have stripes even on their skin
  3. Tigers stripe prints are like a humans finger print, no 2 tigers have the same stripe marks
  4. A tigers tail helps them balance when they make sharp turns and they are also 3 feet tall
  5. Tigers aren't very successful as they only catch 1 in about 10 - 20 animal encounters
  6. A tiger usually lives to 10 - 15 years old but there was a tiger found that is 26 years old
  7. Tigers are great swimmers, they have been known to swim great distances
  8. You can hear a tigers roar from up to 2 miles away
  9. Tigers have greatly padded feat that make catching pray easier because of how silent they are with them
  10. There are white spots on the back of tigers ears which are used to make other animals think that those are their eyes to scare them off
tiger in wild

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