TigersBy: Alejandra Espinoza

Basic Info There are 5 different kinds of tiger which are still

alive today, which are: Siberian, Indochinese, South Bengal, and Sumatran.

Tigers are an endangered species; only about 4,870 to 7,300 tigers are left in the world.

Three tiger subspecies which are now extinct are: the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers.

Probably only 3 or 4 out of every 1,000 tigers eat people and most of these are sick, wounded animals that can no longer hunt large prey.

Adaptation

Ancestors

Habitat They live in wet, humid hot jungles as well

as icy cold forests. They are found in the hot rainforest of

Malaya, the dark thorny woods of India, and the cold, snowy, spruce forest of Manchuria.

They also live in oak woods, tall grassland, swamps, and marshes.

Food Chain

Humans’ Impact People have greatly reduced their number

by hunting them and by clearing the