Created By: Peter Peden June 2010

Something Bigger Than Your House Cat You were walking in Asia when you hear a roar. It was a tiger.

You Can’t Find Me Tigers live in Asia. Tigers live in hot countries with long grasses and forests. Tigers do not like too much heat.

Crunch Tigers live in Asia. They eat deer, larger animals, wild pigs, small mammals, birds, and frogs. Tigers hunt at dusk or early in the morning. Tigers are carnivores. Tigers surprise their prey.

Stripes Stripes Everywhere Tigers are mammals. Tigers have orange,brown, black and white stripes. Tigers are the largest in the cat family. Tigers have five different types, Siberian, South China Tiger, Indochinese tiger, Royal Bengal Tiger and the Sumatra Tiger.

Cubs, Cubs, What Are Cubs? Cubs need protection. When cubs are born they are helpless and blind. Cubs sleep under the trees or in dens. Cubs eat and sleep most of the day.

Facts Sometimes male tigers kill cubs. Tigers are strong swimmers. No two tigers ever have exactly the same pattern of stripes.