Table of Contents Introduction 4 Come on! Where?
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Put me Together!
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Order up!
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My Lifespan 9 And Last, It’s a Hard Life! 10
Introduction ROAR! Welcome to my cave. I’m going to tell you about tigers. Tigers are felines and felines are mammals so turn the page to find out more!
Come on! Where? Well as we tigers know our names sometimes give away where we are from! So the Asian tiger is from Asia and the Bengal tiger is from India. Get it? Also you sometimes CAN’T tell. Like for example: the snowy tiger. But you can tell it’s from a snowy place I’ll just tell you where it’s from: Russia and Russia is a cold and snowy place! Finally last but not least the biggest tiger in the world (drum beat) the Siberian tiger! So do you know where it’s from?
Put me Together!
Head
Tail Paws and claws
WOW! My nose is incredible. It can smell 50 miles away! Also my tail is cool…it can communicate to other tigers by twitching quick or slow. A quick twitch would mean: “Watch out!” Stripes, Stripes, Stripes! The marvelous stripes. The stripes are my fur-pattern. My fur-pattern helps me camouflage and keeps me warm.
Ears, yup ears. My ears are SUPER-DUPERTRIPLE-QUADRUPLIER-AWESOME!!!! They can hear a drop of water drop on a leaf or a wood mouse scuttling on the undergrowth. Paws n’ claws… there sharp all right. The claws are ONE INCH LONG and the paws well they are FIVE INCHES!
Order up!
GOSH! You’ve GOT to see my diet! It’s spoiled! We tigers eat anything we can find… but we still have favorites: Grubs and worms, bugs and insects plus A LOT of meat. Scavengers often steal the food we eat so we got to be careful. Most of the scavengers are birds and miniature wild cats like lynx. So we hide our kills (prey) in trees. Anyways we usually drink two gallons of water a day. Hope you sometimes eat my favorites and GOODBYE!
My Lifespan Really the first thing that happens is a female has cubs. After that I have to feed immediately after birth. The cub’s eyes are still closed after they are born. When the cubs grow after about three weeks the eyes open. The female keeps the cubs for about a year or so. Sixteen weeks later the cubs stop drinking milk and the female has to teach them to hunt. Next it’s time for the young cubs to go on their own. Females stay close to their mother but males don’t. Now it’s time for the Newly left mother tigers to find their home range. They might have to fight other tigers on their quest to find their home range. Of course the tigers mate and the tiger lifespan starts again.
And Last, It’s a Hard Life! I don’t have any danger or enemies except people. They kill us for our fur-pattern or for fear OR for our bones to make tools. People are destroying our habitats and as a result we are endangered. There are probably only a few 1,000 left. Please help us get out of the endangered list!
Felines…………..member of the cat family Mammals……….animal with lungs to breath with and animals with fur or feathers Fur pattern………the design on the animals fur Cubs…a baby tiger, bear or lion Communicate…talk Endangered……….almost extinct Camouflage…………to hide with the animal’s body Diet……….what an animal eats Scavengers…………small birds and cats that steal an animals kill Home range…………a tiger’s territory Lifespan…………the life of a living thing Habitats………..what type of place i.e. Rainforest