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There are also tigers in the Casela
Bird Park in Mauritius. Tigers are mammals. They make
part of the family of the Felidae and are also one of
the four big cats. Tigers are mostly found in grasslands
or forests. In the big cats family, tigers and jaguar
only are good swimmers. You will often find tigers
bathing in rivers, lakes or ponds. They are alone
hunters, they eat herbivores as wild pigs, buffalo and
deers, but they also sometimes do catch bigger or
smaller prey. The human beings are for tigers their
biggest predators. Tigers are most of the time killed
illegally; Chinese use their fur or penises as
aphrodisiac. Generally male tigers weigh between 150 and
300 kg and have a length of between 2.6 and 3.3 metrers,
female weigh between 100 and 150 kg and have a length of
2.3 and 2.7 metres. The smallest tigers are the Corbetts
tigers and the largest are the Arrur tigers which are
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