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What kind of cat can run 30 miles an hour?

  a TIGER!

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Distribution of the Tiger• Most Tigers live in Asia, specifcally throughout

Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Russia. Tigers liketo live in swamps, grasslands,and rain orests. suallywhere Tigers live there are trees, !ushes, and clumpso tall grass.

• nlike other cats, Tigers love the water and they arevery powerul swimmers. Most Tigers will soak inwater usually ater making a kill. Tigers are mostlikely ound eating animals such as deer, !u"alo, wild

cattle and wild !oars, also rom time to time they willeat fsh and cra!s.

• #owadays, there are only fve su!species o Tigers let !ecause the Javan tiger, Caspian tiger, andBalinese tiger are e$tinct. %he fve su!species are

the Bengal tiger, Indo-Chinese tiger&this classifestwo ti ers Sumatran ti er and Siberian ti er.

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A!out hunting

•  (ou may think that tigers canrun or a long period o time,!ut the act is tigers are not!uilt or long)distancerunning

•  %igers eyes are in ront o thehead and not on the side likera!!its or deer !ecausetigers use their eyes to ollowthe movements o their prey. %his is the opposite o ra!!itsor deer who don*t need tokeep track o the distance otheir ood, !ecause their ooddoesn*t move.

•  %he key to survival or thetiger is to hunt they preer tohunt alone

•  %igers are most likely to huntin the late aternoon to

nighttime. %igers usually huntlarge prey. %hey will hunt wildpigs and deer, also small preylike monkeys

• +unting is hard work. A tigermay stalk - animals, !eore

it fnally catches one. ut thenthe tiger rests or a ew days,!ecause tigers only have tohunt a!out once a week.

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Description

•  %he %iger has a long !ody, a short neck, and a frm headwith a short mu//le that contains a set o sharp teeth. %igers have stout legs that end in !road paws. A well edtiger is !ulky, !road in the shoulders, !ack. Males aregenerally longer and heavier than emales. %he averagelength or males is a!out 0 eet long and with a tail lengtho 1 eet long. 2emales are usually 0 to 3 inches shorter in!ody length.

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A tiger*s ur color varies rom orange)red to yellow, with alot o !lack stripes that have di"erent lengths and widths. %he cheeks, throat, and the insides o the ears and legs arewhite. %he !ack o the ear is !lack with a white spot in thecenter.

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 %he %456R as a sym!ol• The Bengal tiger is the

national animal o 4ndiaand angladesh. TheMalaysian tiger is thenational animal oMalaysia. The Siberian

tiger is the nationalanimal o South Korea.Since the successuleconomies o South Korea, %aiwan, +ong Kong andSingapore were descri!edas the 2our Asian %igers, atiger economy is ametaphor or a nation inrapid development. Tigers are also mascots or

various sports teamsaround the world. %on the

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