Do tigers eat their cubs?

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• Thứ Ba, 13 tháng 9, 2016
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The below article will provide you answer for question: Do tigers eat their cubs? 

Occasionally, yes. If a tiger's cubs are stillborn, or if they die, the mother will often eat them. She begins by licking them, trying to rouse them, and when the cubs do not respond, it seems to turn into a predatory response (big cats often lick their prey before beginning to feed). She may also kill and eat cubs which are weak or sickly, and are not likely to survive - many animals know when something is wrong with their young, even if they appear normal to human eyes. Eating cubs like this may be a way of recycling the nutrients the mother has lost nurturing them. 

Male tigers will kill any cubs that are not their own if they can, and usually eat them. This is to reduce competition for themselves, and to bring the tigress into heat again so that he can mate with her and father his own young. Because male and female tigers do not live together, sometimes a male may accidentally kill cubs that he has fathered himself, but this does not happen often.

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