Tigers are mostly solitary animals, except during mating and when females are with cubs. Tiger cubs are born with their eyes closed and weight about two pounds. After a week or two, the cub's eye's open and its first teeth begin to grow. The cubs will nurse for three to six months and begin to follow their mother on hunts at five or six months of age. Cubs will continue hunting with their mother until they are 18-30 months old.
Young tigers leave their mother at about the same time to look for their own territory and a mate.
Today there are less than 8,000 wild tigers and five subspecies. The main treats to tigers in the wild are poaching and habitat loss.