National Geographic Explorer (Student Magazine)

Background: How can zoos keep tigers safe and healthy? That’s just what you need to know as the zookeeper in charge of a six-year-old Siberian tiger. Zoos across the world provide safe homes for about 500 of these endangered animals.

Directions: Print out this page (or get a copy from your teacher). Each sentence below includes an underlined mistake. Go online to create a zoo habitat for a Siberian tiger. (Hint: Be sure to check out the Wild Files.) Then use what you learn to correct the mistakes.

Web Address: www.nationalgeographic.com/tigers/maina.html

1. About 10,000 Siberian tigers live in the wild.

2. A six-year-old tiger weighs as much as 60 elephants.

3. Siberian tigers are the smallest of all tigers.

4. The rocks in a tiger's habitat provide shade and scratching posts.

5. Unlike other cats, tigers like to ride bicycles.

6. A Siberian tiger can jump ten inches off the ground.

7. Wild tigers hunt, kill, and eat about 70 animals a week.

8. Chewing cheeseburgers helps keep a tiger's teeth healthy.

9. Tigers usually play for most of the day.

10. A fishball is a frozen lump of water and fish. It makes eating an exciting activity for zoo tigers.

Teachers and students may make copies of this page to complete as a classroom assignment.