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a 600-pound apex predator wearing fingerprint-unique stripes, painted right onto its skin
means A large carnivorous big cat of Asia, the biggest of all cats, with an orange coat marked by dark vertical stripes.
from From Greek 'tigris,' the name the ancient Greeks gave the beast, which likely traveled to them from an Iranian or other Eastern source — possibly tied to a word meaning 'arrow' or 'swift,' a nod to the animal's deadly speed. The same root names the Tigris River, the 'fast-flowing' one. Latin took up 'tigris,' and the word padded westward through the languages of Europe to reach English.
- skin stripes
- shave a tiger, the stripe pattern remains
- night vision
- sees six times better than humans in dark
- roar reach
- roars carry over two miles away
- silent stalker
- padded paws let half-tonne cats move soundlessly
- solo hunter
- hunts alone, succeeds roughly one attempt in ten
bengal tiger — approximately 2,500 remain in the wild across india, bangladesh, and nepal
siberian tiger — fewer than 60 individuals left in the russian far east and china
south china tiger — fewer than 30 exist in the wild, possibly already functionally extinct