Tigers have striped fur, usually black stripes on orange with a white underbelly. Even rarer, stripeless tigers have been recorded. Males are larger than females. Like most cats, their night-time vision is very good. Tigers have retractible claws.
Tigers have the largest canine teeth of any land-based carnivores.
Sometimes tigers gather to share a large kill. Tigers mark out their territory, like most cats, by spraying their urine together with a glandular secretion, by leaving fecal droppings, or by scratching marks into trees with their claws. Tigers need a territory of about 10-30 or more square miles to provide enough prey to support them. The size of the territory depends on the amount of prey available in the area. Tigers then drag the kill to a safe place in which they eat it.