Their coat color is variable, ranging from light yellow to reddish yellow, or even white. The tiger's stripes can be brown or black. Behaviors Tigers are good swimmers, but poor climbers. They depend on an acute sense of hearing to help them stalk prey. Their behaviors are learned as cubs, both from their mother, and from play.
Tiger cubs stay with their mother until they are two years of age.
Male and female tigers meet only to mate. Each litter usually contains 4 or 4 cubs, but litter size can sometimes be up to 6. A white tiger is not an albino, but rather a rare color phase of the Bengal tiger.