A Michael Broad Blog
A maximum of 99 pounds (45 kg) for a large male according to a reliable source. I am referring to tigers in the wild 😃. However, sources provide different information. I will do my best to answer the question in the title on the resources available to me. In general books are more reliable …
‘Young tigers continue to put on muscle until they are about five years old’. Those are the words of Fiona Sunquist in Wild Cats of the World, an excellent and reliable book by her and her husband Mel. They strongly imply that tigers become adults at around five years of age. This is a …
I’m referring to tigers in the wild eating their recently deceased prey animals. Clearly this is different to captive tigers being fed by a zookeeper. For large prey animals tigers employ a suffocating throat bite which is positioned just below the junction of the jaw and neck. It crushes the animal’s trachea. Tigers hold …
