T

igers live in hot jungles as well as in cold forest. All wild tigers live in Asia. Some of them also live in the snowy forests in Siberia. Others live in the humid jungles of Sumatra. And some live in the dry grasslands of India.

A tigres is a powerful jumper and can easily leap ten feet (three meters) off the ground. Tigers can run 35 miles per hour! Thats really fast wether in the wild or in captivity, the tiger lovers to sleep! Tigers always live in forests because they offer places to hide. Tigers do not like big open spaces. Tigers like to hide, because they hunt by sneaking up on their prey. If they didn`t have grasses or trees to hide behind they will never get food! TIGERS DO EAT PEOPLE-but only in very unusual situations! Sometimes people roam where tiger live. A sick or injured tiger finds it easier to attack a person than to hunt for its usual prey. People have found ways to protect themselves by wearing masks on the back of their heads. Tigers only attack from behind, so the must fools them. It seems like the person is always facing them! Another method used o deter tiger is Scarecrows-which gives electric shock so any tiger that touches the dummy gets a mild shock .It helps teach tigers to stop attacking people. Tigers dont like becoming pets because they are wild. Even captive cubs that have been raised by humans are not domesticated. Trainers in a circus use whips or chairs to scare the tigers into submission. White tigers are not a separate subspecies of tigers ,they are not form cold, snowy climates-they come from India. White tigers are a rare form of Bengal tigers. Theyre regular tigers with whiskers and tails-they just happen to be colored white. White tigers actually range from pure white to white with chocolate brown or black stripes. Many white tigers have blue eyes, but some haves amber or even greenish eyes. while is a very, very unusual color for a wild tiger. Of the thousands of tigers in the wild, only a few are white. They are many white tigers in captivity, though-and almost all of them are the scended from a wild white Bengal tiger named Mohan that was captured in India in the 1950s. Almost all of the captive whit tigers in North America today are descended from Mohan and are highly inbred. Some white tigers have also been mated with other tiger subspecies, creating what are called hybrid tigers. Article source: http://projecttigers.nic.in/whatdoestigerli ke.htm