Tiny tiger cubs meet another tiger for the first time - Nina & Charlotte Meet Sugar & Spice


 Nina & Charlotte Meet Sugar & Spice

When it comes to sisters, a girl’s got to have her sister’s back—no matter how big the others are. So when Nina and Charlotte met Sugar and Spice, the message was clear: don’t mess with my sister. Ginger, their mother, stayed out of it at first. But later, when Khan decided to meet the girls next door, that’s when Ginger stepped in and made her position known.

After spending four hours a day for the past 78 days with a female tiger and watching her raise her four cubs—two boys and two girls—one thing is clear: female tigers are more advanced in reasoning and intelligence than males. Among the two mothers, the white female is noticeably more intelligent than the orange one.

If a female tiger makes it to her first birthday, her chances of being killed by another adult tiger drop significantly. Female tigers rarely kill each other. Since a female possesses what a male wants, he is unlikely to kill her intentionally—though, tragically, a mother may still be killed while protecting her young.

From the moment he's born, a male tiger lives under constant threat from other males. His life is dominated by ego and the looming danger of death, which is why his chances of surviving to adulthood are about half that of a female's. A female tiger survives through reasoning and intelligence; a male survives through strength and endurance.

Mother tigers know this instinctively. It’s why, while raising their cubs, they spend more time keeping watch over their sons than their daughters.


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