Tiger animals nature 2. They are nocturnal hunters and will travel many miles to prey on a variety of animals including deer buffalo and wild boar. June 2 2019 tags. Males are larger than females and may attain a shoulder height of about 1 meter about 3 feet and a length of about 22 meters excluding a tail of about 1 meter. Over the last 100 years hunting and forest destruction have reduced tiger populations from hundreds of thousands of animals to perhaps fewer than 2500.
Native ungulates are the favourite. At birth a cub weighs 22 pounds 1 kg and a female may have as many as seven cubs at a time according to the san diego zoo. Weight is 160230 kg 350500 pounds. While tiger populations around the world are crashing tiger numbers in a remote nature reserve in sumatra indonesia are increasing.
Tigers are hunted as trophies and also.