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The tiger is a lone hunter. It usually has a fixed "beat". It only kills when hungry. It usually eats three or four times in the month. Occasionally, a tiger becomes a man eater. An old, weak or wounded tiger pursues and captures its normal prey with great difficulty. If a man falls into its hand, it's eating habits change and it becomes a man-eater. The cubs of man-eating tigress also acquire a taste for human flesh. A man-eating

tiger will not eat a man's skull.
REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR AND POST NATAL CARE: The tigress carries the cubs in her womb for about 100 days and normally gives birth to a litter of three cubs. A new-born cub weighs about one and a half kilograms. The mother tigress hides her litter among caves and rocks or in the hollows of trees. She carries them by the scruff of their necks from one place to another. She will not let anyone come near them. They open their eyes on the ninth day but cannot see clearly for another couple of weeks. They stay close their mother for a long time. It is only when the tigress mates again to have another litter that she

abandons her previous litter. A tigress in her natural habitat bears cubs every three years. She trains them the art of hunting and killing. It takes five years for a tiger to attain its full size. Over the course of her life, a female tiger will give birth to an approximately equal number of male and female cubs.

HOW IT IS USED: The tiger's skin, fur, whiskers, teeth, claws, flesh and fat are all put to use. Many people believe that eating tiger flesh makes them as strong and brave as the tiger. The tiger's fat is said to be a cure for rheumatism. Tiger's claws are set in silver and gold and worn as charms. The lucky bone from the tiger's shoulder is set in gold and worn. The tiger's skin is used as a rug and lasts for many years. The tigress's milk is said to cure many eye diseases. Nearly all the body parts of tiger are used in Chinese medicine for a range of purported uses including pain killers and aphrodisiacs.

ECOLOGY:There are nine subspecies of tiger, three of which are extinct and one of which is almost certain to become so in the near future. The South China Tiger is believed to be the first tiger. Poaching for fur greatly reduced tiger populations in the world, and it has been placed on the endangered species list. Other main factor contributing to their loss is urbanization .There are not many tigers left in India. As they are threatened with extinction, hunting them has been banned in many states.If forests continue to be cleared and animals

which are the natural food of tigers destroyed at the present rate, there may soon be no tigers left in India.
WHY SAVE TIGER: Tiger is symbol of strength, wrath, courage, wilderness and well-being of the ecosystem. By conserving and saving tigers the entire ecosystem can be restored. In nature, barring human beings and rest of the ecosystem is wild. So conserving wilderness is important and crucial to maintain the life support system. So by saving tiger we can save the entire ecosystem which is crucial for man's own survival in this earth.
ACTION TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT: In 1972, India introduced a massive wildlife conservation project, known as "Project Tiger", to protect the decreasing numbers of tigers in India. The project helped increase the population tigers from 1,200 in the 1970s to 3,000 in the 1990s and is considered as one of the most successful wildlife conservation programs.
Government of India enacted a comprehensive legislation "Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972" with the objective of effectively controlling poaching and illegal trade in wildlife and its derivatives. This has been amended recently from January, 2003.

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