Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am Shrishti Lunia. Today, I am going to tell you about tigers. So be careful as we are going to travel into the world of tigers. I hope the adventure will be fantastic.

Currently, tigers are found in a variety of habitats in South and Southeast Asia, China, and eastern Russia. They thrive in temperate, tropical, or evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, and grasslands. The tiger helps maintain a healthy ecosystem and a balanced food chain, and as an apex predator, it is India's national animal.

Types of Tigers

1. Royal Bengal Tiger:

• Habitat: Tropical forests of the Indian subcontinent, Bhutan (up to 4500 m above sea level), and mangrove forests.

1. Amur Tiger:

• Habitat: Snowfields, evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, grasslands, and birch forests in eastern Russia, China, and North Korea.
• Characteristics: Solitary animals.

1. Sumatran Tiger:

• Habitat: Forests of Sumatra.
• Characteristics: Orange fur with thick black stripes.
• Status: Less than 400 remaining due to deforestation and poaching.

1. Caspian Tiger:

• Habitat: Eastern Turkey, southern Caucasus, northern Iran, Iraq, northwestern China, and Central Asia.
• Status: Disappeared by the early 1880s.

1. Javan Tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica):

• Habitat: Indonesian island of Java until the mid-1970s, evergreen forests, mangroves, and grasslands.

1. Indochinese Tiger:

• Habitat: Tropical and subtropical forests of South Asia, native to Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Characteristics: Strong, long legs allow them to jump high, swim, and run up to 60 miles per hour.

1. Malayan Tiger:

• Habitat: Malay Peninsula and southern Thailand.
• Status: Threatened by deforestation, poaching, and human-tiger conflict.

1. Bornean Tiger:

• Habitat: Island of Borneo in prehistoric times.
• Status: Potentially extinct.

1. South China Tiger:

• Discovery: Found in Xiamen, Fujian Province by American naturalist Harry Caldwell in the early 19th century.
• Status: One of China's 10 endangered species, protected as a first-class animal.

Diet and Lifespan

• Favorite Food: Deer and wild boar, including sambar deer, chital deer, swamp deer, and sika deer. They also eat prey ranging in size from termites to elephants.
• Diet: Includes large prey weighing around 20 kg (45 lb) or more, such as elk, deer, pigs, cattle, horses, buffalo, and goats.
• Lifespan: Typically 10 to 15 years in the wild, up to 20 years in rare cases. About half of all wild tiger cubs do not live beyond the age of two.
• Reproduction: Female tigers give birth to 2 to 3 cubs (sometimes up to 7) after about 103 days of mating. Cubs stay with their mothers until they are three years old.

Habitat and Threats

Tigers live in a variety of habitats, including rainforests, grasslands, savannahs, and mangrove swamps. Unfortunately, human activity has led to the loss of 93% of their historical habitat. Predators of tigers include humans, elephants, and bears, while tiger cubs face threats from hyenas, alligators, and snakes.

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