Tigress Lying Nursing

After a gestation of 103 days on average, the Tigress has one or more small cubs that can weigh from 2 to 3 1/2 pounds. At birth, they do not know how to walk and are blind for the first fourteen days of their lives! They will therefore depend entirely on their mother during this period. Tiger babies will drink mainly milk until they are eight months old, and it is only after 40 days that the Tigress will let them eat meat.