Tiger
Tigers are large cats. Tigers live in a variety of places such as rainforests, grasslands, woodlands, and savannahs. The largest male tiger can weigh up to 300 kilograms and grow up to 3 meters long. Tigers are carnivores because they hunt other animals for food. The animals they eat are their prey.
Tigers like to hunt at night and they hunt once a week. They consume about 30 kilograms of meat in one night.
Most tigers’ fur is orange and white and their stripes are black. Each tiger has a different stripe pattern. They have big powerful paws and long, sharp claws. Tigers do not have any predators because they are large and strong.
In the wild, tigers can live up 15 years. When they are taken care by humans in the zoo, their lifespan is about 20 years.
Vocabulary
A variety of: a different type or kind of something.
Weigh (v): have the heaviness that shows in pounds or kilograms.
Carnivore (n): animals that eat meat for food.
Hunt (v): chase and catch other animals for food.
Prey (n): an animal that is caught and hunted for food.
Consume (v): eat, use
Fur (n): thick hair that covers animals’ bodies.
Stripe (n): black strokes on tiger’s body.
Powerful (adj): having a lot of strength or force
Paw (n): the foot of an animal which has claws or nails
Claw (n): sharp curved nails
Predator (n): an animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals
Lifespan (n): length of time that a person, animal or thing can exist
True/False statement
Read the text again and write T if the statement is true and F if the stamen is False.
- Tigers live only in the forest.
- The largest female tiger can weigh up to 300 kilograms.
- Tiger eat other animals for food so they are called carnivores.
- Prey is the animal the tigers hunt for food.
- Tigers go out and hunt for food every day.
- All tigers have the same stripes.
- Tigers don’t have any predators because they are so strong.
- Tiger can live up to 20 years in the zoo and 15 years in the wild.
- At one night, tigers can eat up to 30 kilograms of meat.
- Tigers can live longer in the wild than in the zoo.
