10 Facts About Tigers

Tigers are victims of human–wildlife conflict, due to encroachment in countries with a high human population density.

Tigers reached India and northern Asia in the late Pleistocene, reaching eastern Beringia, Japan, and Sakhalin.

Tigers are capable of taking down larger prey like adult gaur and wild water buffalo but will opportunistically eat much smaller prey, such as monkeys, peafowl and other ground-based birds, hares, porcupines, and fish.

Tigers generally do not prey on fully grown adult Asian elephants and Indian rhinoceros but incidents have been reported.

Tigers are thought to be mainly nocturnal predators, but in areas where humans are absent, remote-controlled, hidden camera traps recorded them hunting in daylight.

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Tigers usually prefer to eat self-killed prey, but eat carrion in times of scarcity and steal prey from other large carnivores.

Tigers appear to inhabit the deep parts of a forest while smaller predators like leopards and dholes are pushed closer to the fringes.

Tigers have less impact on ungulate populations than do wolves, and are effective in controlling the latter's numbers.

Tigers have been studied in the wild using a variety of techniques.

Tigers's was responsible for an estimated 430 human deaths, the most attacks known to be perpetrated by a single wild animal, by the time she was shot in 1907 by Jim Corbett.