The Tiger

Tiger From a purely descriptive point of view photographs do a better job than words. That said, an overview is appropriate with some links to more. In fact, there are other pages on the subject of tiger description. Please click on the link to see a page on the appearance of the Siberian tiger  and on this page there is a large format version of the above montage and a written description. I also have another large page on tiger facts . The Sunquists say that the tiger is the only striped cat. They mean wild cat because the mackerel tabby (new window) and Togyer  (a purebred striped tabby that is meant to look like a tiger) are striped cats. Lots has been said about the weight of the tiger but reliable weights of wildcats are difficult to find 7 . What is certain is that (a) the tiger is the world's largest cat (excepting man made hybrids such as the Liger ) and (b) the weights of the subspecies varies considerably and as you go south the weights are less as the cha...

How many stripes do tigers have? Well it depends on the subspecies. I don't have figures for the whole of the cat but for the flank area. Here they are: The source material is: Riding the tiger: tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes By John Seidensticker and the authors obtained the information from the National History Museum and from photographs in Mazák (1996). Great Cats by edited by Seidensticker and Lumpkin says that the Chinese tiger has the fewest stripes. Next fewest are on the Amur tiger then the Bengal tiger, then the Indochinese tiger. The island subspecies have the most stripes.