--- title: The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male can weigh about as much as three --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The tiger: the biggest and strongest c… # The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter Lesson 19 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/19-the-tiger/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/0/) — The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male can weigh about as much as three or four grown men and be about 3 metres long from nose to tail tip. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/1/) — Unlike the lion, the tiger lives and hunts alone, slipping through forest and tall grass, creeping close and low, then rushing its prey in one short burst. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/2/) — To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange well, so to them the striped tiger looks greenish and melts into the grass and shadows. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/3/) — Tigers surprise people: they love water and swim between islands, they say hello with a soft puffing chuff, and every tiger's stripes are as unique as your fingerprints. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/4/) — Only about 5,500 tigers are left in the wild, mostly in India, but with protection their numbers in India and Nepal have grown again. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/5/) — The tiger is the biggest of all cats; big Amur and Bengal males can weigh about 250 to 300 kilograms and be about 3 metres long with the tail, heavier than most lions. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/6/) — Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera traps and stripes to recognise and count wild tigers; even the skin under the fur is striped. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/7/) — Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and orange well, so the orange tiger looks greenish to them, like grass. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/8/) — Tigers live and hunt alone, except mothers with cubs, and each tiger needs a big area of its own because its prey is spread out thinly; cubs stay with their mother for about 2 years, learning to hunt. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/9/) — Tigers stalk slowly and quietly, then make a short rush from close by, because they are strong but not built for long chases; perhaps only about 1 hunt in 10 succeeds. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/) — Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/11/) — Tigers usually attack from behind or the side, so Sundarbans honey collectors once wore face masks on the backs of their heads to make a tiger think it was being watched. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/12/) — Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/13/) — Tigers have white spots on the backs of their ears, which may help cubs follow their mother or look like eyes watching; servals and many other wild cats have them too. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/15/) — There are only about 5,500 wild tigers, mostly in India; they lost most of their forests to farms and were hunted for skins and bones, but numbers in India and Nepal have grown again thanks to protection. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/16/) — A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only in zoos and parks, because lions and tigers live in different places in the wild, and ligers grow bigger than both parents. - ← previous: [The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/) - next →: [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)