How many baby Tigers are in a litter?
A Tiger (Panthera tigris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 105 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.32 kg (2.9 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Panthera). An adult Tiger grows up to a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 0″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest extant cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange-brown fur with a lighter underside. It is an apex predator, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and wild boar. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, requiring large contiguous areas of habitat, which support its requirements for prey and rearing of its offspring. Tiger cubs stay with their mother for about two years, before they become independent and leave their mother’s home range to establish their own.The tiger once ranged widely from the Eastern Anatolia Region in the west to the Amur River basin, and in the south from the foothills of the Himalayas to Bali in the Sunda islands. Since the early 20th century, tiger populations have lost at least 93% of their historic range and have been extirpated in Western and Central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and in large areas of Southeast and South Asia and China. Today’s tiger range is fragmented, stretching from Siberian temperate forests to subtropical and tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent and Sumatra. The tiger is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. As of 2015, the global wild tiger population was estimated to number between 3,062 and 3,948 mature individuals, down from around 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, with most remaining populations occurring in small pockets isolated from each other. Major reasons for population decline include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching. This, coupled with the fact that it lives in some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.The tiger is among the most recognisable and popular of the world’s charismatic megafauna. It featured prominently in ancient mythology and folklore and continues to be depicted in modern films and literature, appearing on many flags, coats of arms and as mascots for sporting teams. The tiger is the national animal of India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and South Korea.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Tiger is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Rusty-spotted cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Snow leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sand cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asian golden cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African golden cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ocelot with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tiger
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African striped weasel
- Java pipistrelle
- Banana climbing mouse
- Lesser bilby
- Gray-bellied tree mouse
- European snow vole
- Lesser cane rat
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Unalaska collared lemming
Animals that get as old as a Tiger
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.25 years:
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- North American river otter with 25 years
- Indian flying fox with 31.33 years
- Sooty mangabey with 26.75 years
- Black lemur with 30 years
- Lion with 30 years
- Guanaco with 28.25 years
- Dall’s porpoise with 22 years
- Kob with 21.92 years
- Coyote with 21.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tiger
What other animals weight around 162.28 kg (357.76 lbs)?
- Sambar deer usually reaching 177.52 kgs (391.36 lbs)
- Gemsbok usually reaching 187.6 kgs (413.59 lbs)
- Père David’s deer usually reaching 165.5 kgs (364.86 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 176.12 kgs (388.28 lbs)
- Irrawaddy dolphin usually reaching 190 kgs (418.88 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)
- Barasingha usually reaching 171.22 kgs (377.48 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132.25 kgs (291.56 lbs)
- California sea lion usually reaching 137.6 kgs (303.36 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tiger
Also reaching around 1.83 meter (6′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Llama gets as big as 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin gets as big as 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Argali gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Alpaca gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 1″)
- Guadalupe fur seal gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)