Siberian Tiger by:: *KAS*

Kingdom:   Animalia 

Characteristics that place it here:

• Ingest food and digest it in an internal cavity
• heterotrophs
• Multicellular
• reproduce sexually
• develops in stages

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here:

• a structure called a notochord
• segmented muscles
• closed blood system
• complete digestive system 
• bony or  cartilaginous endoskeleton

Class: Mammilla

Characteristics that place it here:

• three middle ear bones
• hair
• mammary glands
• produces milk to feed their young's

Order: Carnivora

Characteristics that place it here:

• eats meat
• very astute and accurate senses
• excellent runners
• large brains

Family: Felidae

Characteristics that place it here:

• short legs
• long body
• when going for their prey they usually aim for the neck and sever the cervical vertebrate
• Sharp pointed teeth
• well developed senses of sight and hearing
• long whiskers provide an accurate sense of touch

Genius and species: Panthera and Panthera Tigris Alatica

Characteristics that place it here:

• largest member of the cat family
• main enemy is man
• tiger symbolizes power, respect, royalty
• no two tigers have the same stripe pattern
• Female: 100-167 lbs
• Male: 180-360 lbs
• Female: 2.4- 2.75 meters
• Male: 2.7- 3.3 meters

Fun Facts:

1.     the siberian tiger is the biggest wild cat, weighing 590 pounds, 10 feet 4 inches long 

Poem:

Quick rapid movements,

soft agile leap through the air,

to its prey it flies.

References:

• Siberian Tiger, April 25, 2002, www.findlay.edu/users/dechantb/ 
• Tiger preservation, April 25, 2002,  http://lyns.uio.no/catfolk/sp-accts.htm 
•  Tigers, April 25, 2002,  http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/tigers.htm 
• Serra Catholic school April 25, 2002, , http://www.serraschool.org/campus.htm

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