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Tigers are the largest member of the cat family.
Tiger Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: Tigris
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Other Names:
Tiger in Foreign Languages:
Afrikaans: Tier
Albanian: Tigri
Czech: Tygr
Danish: Tiger
Dutch: Tijger
Estonian: Tiiger
Finnish: Tiikeri
French: Tigre
German: Tiger
Middle High German: Tigertier
Old High German: Tigirtior / Tigritior
Greenlandic: Tiigeri
Hungarian: Tigris
Indonesian: Harimau / Macan
Irish: Tíogar
Italian: Tigr
Latin: Tigris
Latvian: Tigeris
Lithuanian: Tigras
Luxembourg: Tiger
Malay: Harimau
Manchu: Tasha
Navajo: Náshdóítsoh Noodo´Zígíí
Norwegian: Tiger
Pali: Byaggha
Polish: Tygrys
Portuguese: Tigre
Romanian: Tigru
Roman: Tigar
Slovakian: Tiger
Slovenian: Tiger
Spanish: Tigre
Sundanese: Lodaya
Swahili: Chui-milia
Swedish: Tiger
Tagalog: Tigre
Turkish: Kaplan
Turkmen: Gaplan
Uzbek: Yolbars
West Frisian: Tiger
Zulu: Ingwe
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Size: Tigers weigh from 160 to 675 lbs
and measure from 6.5 feet long to 12 feet long.
The largest tiger is the Siberian Tiger, the smallest
tiger is the Sumatran tiger. Female tigers are
typically smaller than their male counterparts.
Habitat: Tigers are found in Asia and
India. Tigers inhabit areas with tropical rain
forest, snow-covered coniferous and deciduous
forests, mangrove swamps, and drier forest areas.
Description: Tigers have agile bodies,
with sharp teeth, and strong jaws.
Diet: Tigers prey on prey wild boar,
deer and other mammals in their habitats.
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