As managing partner of Pacific Holdings Partnership, Youval Ziv manages the firm’s single-family residence real estates across the United States. A lover of animals, Youval Ziv is the proud owner of a tiger named Maya.
The largest cat in the world, tigers are mostly found in grasslands and rainforests in Southeast Asia, China, and Russia. The large mammals have thick reddish coats with long black and gray stripes. There are nine known species of tigers: Siberian, Bengal, South Chinese, Indochinese, Sumatran, Malayan, Javan, Caspian, and Bali. The last three are extinct. In all species, males are larger than females. A Siberian male can weigh up to 660 pounds.
Tigers feed on wild pigs, ambar deer, antelope, and water buffalo. On some occasions, they are known to hunt crocodiles, leopards, sloth bears, and monkeys. Tigers are patient predators, often stalking their prey before ambushing them. They rely on their huge size to knock down prey before killing them with a bite to the neck. Tigers can consume up to 88 pounds of meat at a go.
Tigers live very solitary lives and are fiercely territorial. They occupy territories whose size depends on the availability of food. These territories are marked with urine and feces.
Poaching and human-wildlife conflict has led to the gradual reduction in the tiger population to just about 3,000-4,500. Adoption can save them from extinction.
