Characteristics of the tiger's appearance

Not "king", but stripes. The tiger has been camouflaged for a long time in order to make hunting easier, and finally its skin color has evolved into striped markings. This stripe coincidentally resembles the character for "king", so people visualize this stripe as "king". In fact, most of our impressions of the character for "king" on the tiger's head come from artistic creations. Artists, out of the traditional Chinese knowledge of the tiger, use the character "king" to represent the pattern on the tiger's head, which is not only convenient for creation, but also has a very meaningful meaning! The pattern on the tiger's head just happens to be similar to the word "king", and people saw it and gave it some meaning themselves, nothing to do with natural selection.

The tiger's main features, the tiger always let people full of fear at the same time, but also make people fascinated, because they are born to be excellent killers, and the fluffy markings and indeed lovely. It has a round head, a pair of eyes that "fire" a cold light and stare intently; a thick tail like a steel whip. It eyes to see six ways, ears to hear in all directions, nose sniffing thousands of miles, ferocious temperament, strength superb, walking in a dignified manner, angry whistle when the sound of the mountains and rivers.

The tiger's body is strong and robust, with well-developed forelimbs, a large head, and a tail that is about half the length of its body. Its fur is dense and heavy, varying in color between orange and brown, with white areas on the belly, and each individual has distinctive vertical black stripes on its body, stripes that facilitate camouflage in vegetation. The tiger is one of only a few striped felines.

The skull of the tiger is similar to that of the lion in that the forehead region is usually less concave or flattened, while the postoccipital region is slightly longer. The lion's skull shows a larger nasal opening. Since the skulls of these two species are different in size, the structure of the jaws is a reliable indicator of their identification. The tiger has fairly strong teeth, and its somewhat curved canines are the longest of any extant feline.

In general, males have body lengths ranging from 2.5-3.9 meters, weights ranging from 90-306 kilograms, and skull lengths ranging from 316-383 millimeters. Females have body lengths ranging from 2.0-2.75 meters, weigh about 65-167 kilograms, and have skull lengths between 268-318 millimeters.