Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Tigers & Lions

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Tigers and lions are large carnivores of the cat family.

Tigers mostly native in eastern and southern Asia, they feature their near-white to reddish-orange fur overlay with black vertical strips, most of them carry the Chinese mark "Wang" on their forehead. Male tigers can reach 3 metres in length, and heaviest one can weigh more than 225kg. Wild tigers can eat as much as 18kg at one time which can last for several days. By contrast, tigers in the zoo may eat a prepared diet and vitamins, about 4.5kg meat per day.
Many tigers are facing endangered because of hunting and other reasons, the most critically endangered one is the South China Tiger which is also known as Amoy or Xianmen Tiger. Tigers can swim and climb, because of their fur they need swimming to cool off. Wild tigers live about 10-15 years while tigers in the zoo are expect to live to 16-20 years.



Lions mostly live in the grassy plains of eastern and southern Africa, the Asiatic Loin leave 290 in the Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat of India only, because of human population gowth and development make them loss their habitat, hunting, and so on.

Male loins all have a mane, and cam reach about 2.7 metres in length, and weigh about 250kg. They usually live in group whilst tigers like to live alone.

On average, loins live for about 15 years in the wild, but they can live for about 24 years in captivity.

Can they back to the wild? Are they guadually disappear?? What can we do to save them?

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