Friday, September 12, 2008

Tigers


There is only one species of tiger, Panthera tigris, but there are six living subspecies: Bengal Tiger, Indo-Chinese Tiger, Malayan Tiger, Siberian or Amur Tiger, South China Tiger, and Sumatran Tiger. Each tiger has a different stripe pattern so no two tigers are the same. Here is a web sight that has a lot on tigers and there habitat and diet. here is a website on tigers http://animals.about.com/od/carnivores/p/tiger.htm. Tigers mainly hunt at night and eat monkeys, young elephants, rhinoceroses, deer, cattle, and wild pigs. The tigers mainly live in Asia and and southern Turkey everything else you need to know should be on the web sight. White tigers are very "rare" or "endangered" they are not a breed of tiger they are called "albino" this means that when born the cells have trouble and are unable to create pigment of color.