Tigers may inhabit high-mountain terrain, mountain steppes, dry tropical forests, humid evergreen forests and mangrove swamps. Tigers are the largest living cat species in the world. Siberian tigers are generally the heaviest, with males often weighing more than 600 pounds. Sumatran tigers are the lightest, with males weighing only about 250 pounds. The average male Bengal tiger is nine feet to nine and one-half feet long.
Females typically grow to eight and one-half feet in length.
Males weigh 400 to 500 pounds and females average 300 to 400 pounds. Tigers that live in the Northern regions of India grow slightly larger than in Southern regions. They also are lighter in color. Tigers eat large mammalian prey. They especially like deer, antelope, bears, wild pigs, buffalo, wild cattle and porcupines.