It can drag prey that would take twelve men to move. Cubs are born blind and weigh about three pounds. They live on milk for six to eight weeks. At eight to ten weeks, the mother begins taking them on kills to feed. They have fully developed canines by sixteen months but do not begin making kills on their own until eighteen months of age.
Wild tigers can eat as much as sixty pounds of meat at one time.
After eating, they may not eat again for several days. Unlike lions, tigers prefer to live alone. It is believed that a single tiger has a better chance of surprising prey than a group of tigers. Due to an adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of a tiger is six times that of a human. Wild tigers exist today in Eastern Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.