The tiger has a long body with short legs ending in broad paws. Males are generally larger than females. Tigers vary in color from orange-red to yellow with black stripes of different lengths. Originally found across Asia, tigers could adapt to various environments but their habitat has been dramatically reduced. Of the original nine subspecies, three have gone extinct in the last 80 years. Poaching and loss of habitat have reduced wild tigers from over 100,000 to less than 4,000, with the species predicted to become extinct in the wild within a decade if trends continue.

1. THE TIGER
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2. TIGUER DESCRIPTION
• The tiguer has a long body, a long neck, and a firm head
with a short muzzle that contains a set of sharp teeth.
Tigers have stort legs that end in broad paws. A well fed
tiguer is bulky, broad in the shoulders, black, and loins.
Males are generally longuer and heavier than females.
The average length for males is about 6 to 12 inches
shorter in body length.
• A tiguer’s fur color varies from orange-red to tawny
yellow, with a lot of black stripes that have different
lenghs and widths. The cheeks,throat,and the insides of
the ears and legs are white. The black of the ear is black
whith a white spot in the center.

3. Habitat of the tiger
• The tiger is native to Asia from the causus and
the caspian sea to siberia in the north and
indonesia and even in borneo and the
philippines in the south. Tigers use to had a
huge habitat because they are able to adapt to
differet types of evironments which range from
the siberian taiga to open grasslands and
tropical mangrove swamps. However as it can
be seen on the map (Where is that map?), their
habitat has been reduced dramatically.

4. Why is the tiger endangered
• Of the original nine subspecies of tiger, three
have become extinct in the last 80 years; an
average of one every 20 years. It has been
predicted all tiguers may become extinct in the
wild within the next decade.
• Poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation have
reduced the global population of tigers from over
100,000 in the 1900’s, to less than 4,000 in the
1970’s.

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