Wetlands: White Tiger
Jessica Lash Period 1
What a White Tiger Needs
The White Bengal Tiger kill their own food and like their meat fresh. They target preys that range from 65 to 2,000 pounds. They need a lot of water, which is plentiful from living in the habitat of a wetland.
White Tiger Habitat
The White Bengel Tiger has a wide range of habitat. Wetlands, river basins, and savannas are all territories of the white tiger.
White Tiger Prey
Wild pigs, cattle, and deer are prey of the White Bengal Tiger. They also eat chicken ,horse meat or kangaroo meat five days a week. They fast one bones of animals about twice a week.
About The White Bengal Tiger
White tigers are bigger in size than orange tigers. The fur of white tigers is pale white; it is lined with chocolate-colored stripes. Eyes of these tigers are blue in color. The length of white tigers ranges from 9-11 feet and they weigh between 400 and 550 pounds. Litter size of these tigers ranges from 1-6 cubs; usually cubs stay with their mother till the age of 2-2.5 years. Deer form the main diet of these tigers. However, they may also feed on wild pigs, cattle, boars and fish.
No one knows exactly why tigers are striped, but scientists think that the stripes act as camouflage, and help tigers hide from their prey. The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes. Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints; no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.
Like domestic cats, tiger claws are retractable. Tiger scratches on trees serve as territorial markers. The life span of tigers in the wild is thought to be about 10 years. Tigers in zoos live twice as long.
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