As growing human populations encroach ever further into natural habitats, people and tigers are increasingly competing over living space and food. The resulting conflict not only threatens the world’s remaining wild tigers, but poses a major problem for communities living in or near tiger habitat. Revenge killings If tigers don’t have enough prey (due to hunting of prey species by people or poor quality habitat), they will instead...

Mountain lion or cougar belong to the big-cat family and is mostly found in America and the western hemisphere. The habitat of mountain lions varies from mountain terrain to flat lands. They live in deserts as well as rain forests. They are known by almost 40 different names like deer cat, panther, silver lion, king cat, red tiger, mountain devil, puma, and so on. They are solitary animals and are very territory conscious. Regarding their...

Here are some interesting facts about tigers: 1. Tigers are the largest naturally occurring specie of cats. 2. Of tiger subspecies, the Siberian Tiger is the biggest cat that can weigh well up to eight hundred pounds. 3. Tigers are very beautiful and their striped coat makes for ideal camouflage. 4. A tiger’s stripes are like fingerprints – no two are alike. In fact the stripes’ pattern is often used to identify...

Forests are shelter places for a number of many wild animals that make our nature beautiful. They are helpful to humans in a number of ways. Their bright colours, soft fur, extremely developed running capability makes them immensely successful among the predators. We are talking about the leopards. Leopards come under the kingdom Animalia and phylum Chordata. They are placed in the class Mammalia, order Carnivora as they are carnivores and...

One of the most majestic cats on the planet is the Bengal Tiger, and those populations that live nearby these cats, take them very seriously, as one swipe of its strong paw, can nearly cut a man open. Of course, if a Bengal Tiger is after you, it will not stop with one swipe, basically, you become lunch, or a quick snack as they often joke. But, all humor aside, the locals will smile and tell tall tales, but very few humans that have ever...

Scared, lonely, sad and hungry, jumping at the smallest sound, waiting for his mommy to come back. But maybe she is not coming back. Save our tigers, there are just 1411 – is the tagline of the video being telecast on television all over India. Looking at the young two months old cub waiting for his mommy in the cave was really touching as he looked lost, alone with no one to console him just like an orphan, who has no idea where to...

The tiger (Panthera tigris), a member of the Felidae family, is the largest of the four “big cats” in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. Reaching up to 3.3 metres (11 ft) in total length, weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds), and having canines up to 4 inches long, the larger tiger subspecies are comparable in size to the biggest extinct...