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Dear Name,
I enjoyed learning that tigers are one of your favorite animals! I think tigers are so beautiful. I did some studying and learned a little more about tigers and wanted to share what I learned with you! I also included some photos of tigers in the letter.
Tigers live in many types of terrains: tropical rain forests, snow-covered forests, mangrove swamps and dry forest areas. Unlike most members of the cat family, tigers seem to enjoy water and swim well. Like human fingerprints, every tiger has a unique pattern of stripes that can be used to identify it! Another fascinating fact is that a tiger’s saliva is antiseptic, and comes handy when a tiger cleans its wounds.
Male tigers can grow up bigger than 3 meters long and their tales can be be 1 meter long! Tigers are the largest cat in the world. Since they're so big, they need to eat a lot of meat and can eat up to 60 pounds of meat at a single time. It is the largest land-living mammal whose diet consists mainly of meat… tigers require large areas with forest cover, water, and prey such as deer and swine. The tiger hunts alone, primarily between dusk and dawn, traveling six to 20 miles in a night in search of prey.
Tigers are largely solitary cats and are most active between dusk and dawn, except for a mother and her cubs, tigers live and hunt alone. Male and female meet only briefly to mate. After a gestation of 100 to 112 days, two to three blind and helpless cubs are born. Tiger cubs weigh just over two pounds at birth and nurse until they are six months old. During the next 18 months, they gradually become independent, and at about two years of age strike out alone to find their own territory. Females may establish a territory adjacent to that of their mother, or even take over part of their mother’s territory.
There are 6 types of tigers:
Bengal Tiger - This most common tiger is found in India and Bangladesh.
Indochinese Tiger - These tigers are smaller than the Bengal Tiger and live in mountain forests.
Malayan Tiger - This tiger is only found at the tip of the Malayan peninsula.
Siberian Tiger - This is the largest of the tigers and is found in Eastern Siberia.
Sumatran Tiger - Found only on the island of Sumatra, these are the smallest types of tigers.
South China Tiger - This is the most endangered type of tiger.
Love, Hannah
I'm enjoying learning about all these animals and I think our kids will too!
