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What is the largest cat on the face of the earth? No, it is not the lion but the tiger. Technically, the “liger” - a cross between a male lion and a female tiger - is the largest cat in the world but they exist only in captivity and never in the wild. There are no tigers in Africa and there never were. Tigers reside exclusively in Asia until we start counting zoos, sanctuaries, circuses and Siegfried and Roy’s Las Vegas menagerie.
The tiger is the world's largest cat; a powerful and solitary predator that once roamed widely throughout Asia. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were over one hundred thousand tigers in the wild. Today, perhaps fewer than six thousand remain. There were eight tiger subspecies but three became extinct during the twentieth century. Hunting and forest destruction are the major culprits behind the tiger’s disappearance.
At Zoo Atlanta a visitor can see a splendid clique of Sumatran tigers. The Sumatran tiger is the smallest subspecies of tiger but otherwise look the same as a typical Bengal tiger.
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is coming to Atlanta’s Philips Arena on February 12, 2010. Amid other animals, their menagerie contains a bunch of Bengal tigers that will enchant audiences. A hungry tiger can eat as much as sixty-five pounds of raw meat in one night, though they usually eat about ten pounds daily. Is this why zoo and circus ticket prices are so inexpensive?
In a poll conducted by Animal Planet, the tiger was voted the world's favorite animal, narrowly beating the dog by seventeen votes. More than fifty thousand viewers, from seventy-three countries, voted in the poll. But keeping a tiger as a household pet is silly because a tame, pampered tiger can still be hazardous to your health. Just ask the San Francisco Zoo or Roy Horn! THE END
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