The document summarizes information about tigers and elephants. It discusses the key facts about tigers, including their species, physical characteristics, habitats, and diseases. It also outlines the taxonomic classification of tigers. For elephants, it describes their social structure, physical traits like their trunks, differences between Asian and African elephants, common diseases, diet and restraint methods.
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Tiger and elephant
1. Tiger
Elephant
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3.  The tiger is a mammal and is placed within the Carnivora
order which comes from the Felidae family.
 The three main tiger species are-
1. The Sumatran Tiger
2. The Manchurian or Siberian Tiger
3. The Bengal or Indian Tiger.
 The Bengal tiger is the national
animal of Bangladesh
and India.
 The scientific name for the
Bengal Tiger is Panther Tigress.
Fig. : Bengal Tiger
5. The most prolific areas where the tigers are found-
1. The whole of India,
2. The lower parts of the Himalayan mountain range
3. The mangrove swamps of West Bengal and
4. The dense vegetation of the various forests of the
Far East
Fig. : Tiger in a forest
6.  The tiger has body length of up to 3.3 metres and weighing
up to 306 kg.
 Tigers can live upto 20 to 26 years
 The colors and markings of body are orange with a white
belly and black stripes. But they can vary from dark brown to
intense black. These stripes are like fingerprints, each tiger
has different stripes .
 All subspecies of tigers are extremely territorial and
nocturnal in nature
 Males have wider forepaw pads than females, enabling
gender to be told from tracks
8.  They eat meat and will not ordinarily consider any sort of
vegetation to be part of their diet.
 Supplying a diet similar to that of the domestic dog is essential
but it should not be too soft.
 Obesity will occur due to lack of movement and inactiveness.
 Tiger can be restrained by using squeeze cage, blow gun etc.
Usually Tilazol is used for chemical restraining.
Fig. : Obesed tiger Fig. : Squeeze cage
10. • Elephants are the largest land mammals of the family
Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea
• There are mainly two type of elephant –
• Asian Elephant
• African Elephant
• The basic difference between Asian and African elephant
is that African elephant is larger in size than Asian elephant
13.  Elephants live in groups containing 5 to 30 elephants.
 The male are called bull, the female are cow and babies are calves.
The gestation period varies from 21 to 22 months
 The average weight of elephant is about 12000 kg
 The female mature at 6 years while the
male in 9 years
 The fusion of the nose and upper lip is
called Trunk
 The male show a special type of behavior
called ‘Musth’ which is characterized by
aggressive behavior.
Fig. : Elephant group
15.  Elephants are herbivores and hay constitutes the
basic diet of captive elephants. Elephants eat 600
pounds of vegetable in a day.
 The key to successful restraint of elephant is to
ensure that the animal is well trained as possible.
 The anesthetics used for restraining are –
Phenothiazine tranquilizers, Etorphine, Morphine
and Xylazine
 Medication are hided in favorite food and if rejected
then injection is done immediately in different
routes such as hindquarters, forlegs and neck for IM
and ear vein for IV.