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Tiger
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Scientific name:
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Panthera tigris
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Average shoulder height:
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91 cm
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Body lengths:
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Males: 190 cm – 300 cm
Female: 190 cm – 270 cm
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Weight:
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Males: 260 kg
Females: 160 kg
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Gestation period:
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103 days
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Life expectancy:
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16 - 18 years in captivity
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Appearance
The Bengal Tiger has a magnificent appearance. The coat colour is reddish orange with narrow black, gray or white stripes, generally in a vertical direction. The underside is creamy or white.
The stripes on a tiger act in the same way that a fingerprint does on a human. Each stripe pattern is unique to that particular individual.
Behavior
Territorial male tigers usually travel alone, marking his boundaries with urine, droppings and scratch marks to warn off trespassers. Mother and her young are the basic social unit.
They are commonly seen in the shade or wading in pools to cool off.
Reproduction
For tigers that live in the tropical forest region, breeding activity has been recorded throughout the year. A typical litter is about 3-4 cubs in size, each blind and helpless and weighing about 1kg. Rearing of the young is done by the female. The cubs begin to gain their independence around 18 months of age, but it is not until they around 2-2 1/2 years old that they go off in search of their own range. The female cubs reach sexual maturity by 3 to 4 years of age and the male cubs at the age of 4 to 5 years.
Enclosure Tiger: (size 10 000 m2)
Coda, a wonderful male tiger, was born in August 2005 on a farm in South Africa. Only a few days after his birth he was seperated from his mother and sold to the former owners of the property, where he was raised by hand. For a short time he shared a small enclosure with lion cubs, but he was seperated from them, because he got bigger and bigger. Coda is very imprinted to humans and therefore appears friendly to all people. Since November 2007 he has a big and natural enclosure with a little dam, because tigers love water. But Coda needs companionship. Because of this, we will try to introduce a female tiger to him...
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Bank account name:
LIONSROCK PARK
Bank and Code:
First National Bank - South Africa FNB-230133
Account No: 62165825583
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