Tiger Tours: The Life Cycle Of The Bengal Tiger

Magnificent and enigmatic, the Bengal Tiger attracts wildlife lovers from all around the world to participate in Tiger tours

. There is plenty about them to intrigue and enlighten, and learning more about their lives can help us to appreciate and understand them all the better.

Courtship and Breeding

The majestic big cats roar is an awe-inspiring sound to hear at any time, but those who happen to take Tiger tours while the animals are courting may be able to hear a whole range of sounds typically, males will emit wide-reaching howls to signal that they are looking for a mate, and females will respond with calls of their own. Once a pair has found each other, they engage in a courtship dance, in which they might smell each other, rub against each other and purr. A female remains in heat for three to six days, and mating will occur several times over the course of those days. Tigers are able to mate all year around, but this most frequently occurs between late November and early April. The male departs after conception often to seek another mate while the female carries her litter for a gestation period of around 16 weeks. The female then seeks a den in which to give birth.

Young Life

A female typically gives birth to two or three cubs, sometimes as many as six, which are born blind and must rely on their mother completely for the first few weeks of their lives. They stay in the den for around eight weeks, protected by their mother both from the world at large and any passing males who might kill the cubs in order to make the female fertile again. As they grow, they learn to fight through play with each other and their mother, and then to interact with the world around them as she brings them out of the den for longer and longer periods at a time, until they are big enough to travel with her and learn to hunt. Although cub sightings on Tiger tours are not as common as adult sightings, careful observers have reported seeing the young in the wild at this stage in their life cycle. At around 18 months old they become independent, but usually stay with their mother until up to two and a half years.

Maturity

After leaving their mothers, they must establish their own territories. By the time they reach sexual maturity around 3-4 years for females and 4-5 years for males a successful young adult cat will have its own range of up to 70 square kilometres, and it is while travelling through these territories that they can often be sighted on Tiger tours.

by: Marissa Ellis-Snow

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