Tiger Facts

Suave your Flamingo facts have made us wiser in only ways you can imagine. Let me return the favor:

• A group of tigers is called a Streak.

• In the scent of the tigers urine and scat is a code which can only be deciphered by other wild tigers (and Tiger Mane)

• If you were to shave the fur from a tiger it would still  have stripes. 

• A male tiger can copulate up to six times an hour (ditto TM).

• The tendons in a tiger’s leg are so strong that an animal has been known to remain standing after it has been  shot dead.

• Approximately fifty humans are killed by tigers each year.  

• In 1959 The Siberian tiger was declared an endangered species and awarded protection.

• In 1959 The South China tiger was declared a pest and a bounty was placed on its head.

• There are believed to be 120 outlets selling tiger derivatives in Australia alone.

• Tigers do not purr.

• This is a tiger:

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