adjective. noting or relating to a strict parenting style that demands academic excellence and obedience from children, associated especially with East Asians:a tiger mom; tiger parenting.

1) Tigers are the largest cat species in the world reaching up to 3.3 meters in length and weighing up to 670 pounds!

• 2) Tigers are easily recognizable with their dark vertical stripes and reddish/orange fur.
• 3) The Bengal tiger is the most common tiger.
• 4) Tigers live between 20-26 years in the wild.

Tigers are solitary animals and are fiercely territorial. Unlike lions they do not live in social groups. A tiger and a tigress can move together only during a brief mating season. A tigress may live with her cubs till those are grown up.

A tiger can digest bones from the human body According to Joe Exotic.

Do lions eat their cubs? Wild male lions will also typically chase off any male cubs when they grow up to ensure they are alone with the pride lionesses. Sometimes the lions will kill cubs – usually when they take over new territory from another pride – to stake their claim on the females.

Although human beings can be attacked by many kinds of animals, man-eaters are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet and actively hunt and kill humans. Most reported cases of man-eaters have involved lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and large crocodilians.

According to the Hindustan Times one tiger rug cost $124,000, while a stuffed tiger cost $700,000. Leopard skins ranged from $100,000 to $300,000.

Tigers are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. In order to trade tiger skins, sellers need to prove they originate before 1947, the item is tanned and lined and they were obtained legally.

Tigers are now being threatened by the excessive hunting by human for their fur and bones, otherwise called as poaching. The skin, on the other hand, is a very valuable and expensive fur. There are laws and regulations practiced by different countries with regards to tiger hunting.

Their Skin Is Also Striped The reason is likely because the cats’ colored hair follicles embedded in the skin are visible, similar to beard stubble. Other striped or spotted animals don’t exhibit this kind of coloring on their skin. Zebra skin, for instance, is black underneath their black-and-white striped coats.

They sit on that mat to meditate, as due to texture and color of mats other animals (including predators like other tigers) gets disguised as if another tiger is sitting nearby the saint, so they don’t attack on him when he was meditating deeply with closed eye.

According to Shiva Puran- Lord Shiva used to wander around the forests bare bodied. Once, he reached a forest which was home to various saints, who used to stay there along with their families. Since then Lord Shiva wears a tiger skin which symbolises- the victory of the divine force over animal instincts.

Tiger skins are turned in to rugs or stuffed and used as luxury home décor. Such displays of wealth are thought to symbolise power (impunity) and wealth in some cultures. Tiger bones are used to make “bone strengthening wine”.

India bans import of exotic skins used for leather or fur clothing and accessories. Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC ) and Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) further supported the need to bring in the ban”, said the Humane Society International/India and People for Animals in a statement.

Animals absolutely need their skin to survive. Those used for leather are typically killed before their skin is torn from their bodies—but sometimes they’re skinned alive, dying slowly and painfully.

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New Delhi: The government of India has banned the import of exotic skins of reptiles like crocodiles and alligators and animas like fox, mink and chinchillas. But they are subject to India’s Wild Life (Protection) act, 1972 and CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

Legally imported crocodile skin must come from reputable farms with CITES certification to prove legal possession. Any uncertificated skins are confiscated by customs and sale of an inherited (pre-CITES) or illegally imported skin is a criminal offense. The laws on crocodile trade are different around the world.

Sometimes conservation authorities will try to prevent these by shooting a “killer croc” themselves. In other instances crocodiles are killed in an attempt to find remains of missing children in their stomachs.

Since trading in crocodile or its meat is illegal, Bruhat Bengaluru Maganagara Palike (BBMP) health officials have taken a serious note of the case, and will check eateries in the city to rule out crocodile meat being dished out here, according to BBMP health committee chairman Mujahid Pasha.

In the United States, alligator hunting is legal in Arkansas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Additionally, the meat can be sourced from alligator farms.

Crocodile meat is widely regarded as a delicacy in Australia – let’s see where you can eat it the best way!

There are two forms of crocodile farming; captive breeding and ranching. In captive breeding farming systems, adult crocodiles produce eggs which are incubated and the hatchlings raised until harvest size. In ranching operations, the crocodiles reared on these farms come from wild-harvested eggs or hatchlings.

In the Northern Territory and Western Australia, crocodile farming involves both captive breeding and regulated sustainable harvesting of eggs and live crocodiles from the wild. In Queensland crocodile farming is done through captive breeding only and wild harvesting is illegal.