Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with Animal Facts. I am Steph Wolf, and today we are going to be

learning about our furry, scaly or possibly even slimy friends. Well, in today's case, it's going to be a

furry friend. We're looking at the tiger today, a very majestic, beautiful animal. As per the suggestion of one of our special listeners out there,

so this is a special listener episode from Crystal in the United States.

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learn about an animal that you'd like to learn about. So the tiger, one that I have no kind of personal, I have never

seen a tiger in person before. I've seen them in videos and stuff like that, but it is one of

those animals that I don't not have a lot of experience with personally. So I'm very excited to

get into them and learn a little bit. So just a disclaimer,

I am not a biologist. I am just somebody who is interested in animals, just like all of you

listeners out there, who is learning with you. So all of these facts, they're totally new to me.

So I got these facts from Discover wildlife animal planet one website which was a national park

Ratham Rathambor national park and W.WF.ca so we have the Discover Wildlife Animal

Planet we have the National Park in the WWF so we have the Discover Wildlife Animal Planet, we have the National Park in the WWF, so we have some return sources, I guess you could say, many sources that we've used before.

So why don't we just get right into the show?

So the first fact is that tigers are the only big cats to have stripes, and individuals can be identified by their pattern.

So we've seen this in animals before where identification can really differ from species to species, and in the case of the tiger, it really has to do with their stripes.

And when it comes to predatory adaptations, because those of you who have maybe seen tigers at a zoo by chance, you wouldn't expect really their bright orange and black stripes to blend in to, you know, the greenery that zoos usually portray.

But the predatory adaptation is not that high up on the priority list for the stripes.

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