10 things you probably didn’t know about tigers

• All tiger stripes are different, as unique as our fingerprints.

A tiger’s success rate for hunting is 10 percent.

• Tigers are the largest of the cat species.

Four of the former nine subspecies of tigers are extinct in the wild.

• There are currently more tigers living in people’s backyards, roadside zoos and traveling entertainment shows than are left in the wild.

Tigers can run up to 40 miles per hour.

• Tigers are excellent swimmers and have been recoreded to swim up to seven miles in a single day.

Tigers are capable of hunting from the water.

• Tigers are ambush predators. They prefer to wait for their prey to come as close as possible before they make a move to kill.

Tigers are typically solitary animals, but on a rare occasion, a group of tigers is called a streak.