Well-known species such as the great white shark, tiger shark, blue shark, mako shark, and the hammerhead shark are apex predators — organisms at the top of their underwater food chain.

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Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark, have two to three layers or more, depending on body size.

The tiger shark must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting to support its varied diet, whereas the porbeagle shark, which hunts schooling fish such as mackerel and herring, has a large lower lobe to help it keep pace with its fast-swimming prey.

Taking this a step further, sand tiger shark pups cannibalistically consume neighboring embryos.

A predator at the top of any food chain ( that is, one that is preyed upon by no organism ) is called an apex predator ; examples include the orca, sperm whale, anaconda, Komodo dragon, tiger, lion, tiger shark, Nile crocodile, and most eagles -- and even omnivorous humans and grizzly bears.

Cuvier is commemorated in the naming of several animals ; they include Cuvier's beaked whale ( which he first thought to be extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, Cuvier's toucan, Cuvier's Bichir, Galeocerdo cuvier ( tiger shark ), and Anolis cuvieri, a lizard from Puerto Rico.

The tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, is a species of requiem shark and the only member of the genus Galeocerdo.

Commonly known as sea tiger, the tiger shark is a relatively large macropredator, capable of attaining a length of over.

The tiger shark is a solitary, mostly nocturnal hunter.

The tiger shark is considered a near threatened species due to finning and fishing by humans.

While the tiger shark is considered to be one of the sharks most dangerous to humans, the attack rate is low according to researchers.

The tiger is second on the list of number of recorded attacks on humans, with the great white shark being first.

The tiger shark is often found close to the coast, mainly in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.

The meekest, most submissive wife of today is a tiger by her mother's or grandmother's standards.

The adult tiger salamander is terrestrial but the larva is aquatic and able to breed while still in the larval state.

The tiger salamander ( Ambystoma tigrinum ) is typical of the frogs and salamanders that hide under cover ready to ambush unwary invertebrates.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

The team's official mascot is a bengal tiger named Who Dey.

One of the smallest is the Black-footed Cat, measuring long, while the largest in the wild is the tiger, which can attain up to in length and weigh.

She is a tiger at the chessboard.

The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere.

This spotted cat most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger.

It is strongly associated with the presence of water and is notable, along with the tiger, as a feline that enjoys swimming.

DNA evidence shows the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, and clouded leopard share a common ancestor, and that this group is between six and ten million years old ; the fossil record points to the emergence of Panthera just two to 3. 8 million years ago.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

* 2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.

A puffer's neurotoxin is not necessarily as toxic to other animals as it is to humans, and puffers are eaten routinely by some species of fish, such as lizardfish and tiger sharks.

In the 1980s some Australian pizza shops and restaurants began selling " gourmet pizzas ", that is, pizzas with more expensive ingredients such as salmon, dill, bocconcini, tiger prawns, or unconventional toppings such as kangaroo, emu and crocodile.

The tiger ( Panthera tigris ) is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to.

The Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh and India.

The word " tiger " is retraceable to the Latin word tigris meaning a spotted tigerhound of Actaeon.

A subspecies called the Trinil tiger ( Panthera tigris trinilensis ) lived about 1. 2 million years ago and is known from fossils found at Trinil in Java.

The stripe pattern is also found on the skin of the tiger.

The leopard (), Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four " big cats " in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar.

It also appeared in the film Ice Age as a particularly round member of the saber-tooth tiger pack led by Soto.

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The tiger quoll is a member of the family Dasyuridae, which includes most carnivorous marsupial mammals.

The Sumatran tiger is the only surviving member of the Sunda Islands group of tigers that included the now extinct Bali tiger and Javan tiger.

He lettered in football and track and was a member of the tiger band and choir.

Sometimes, live critters such as a tiger salamander, hissing cockroaches or fire belly toads are on display by a staff member as well.

Mr. Fieni, a member of a team of Italian, US and Nepalese conservators and archaeologists which has explored these findings, has said that " Finding the cave was almost like a miracle, --- Unlike the murals in the monastery, the Mustang cave paintings do not reveal a Tibetan but a strong Indian influence, including the animals they depict-leopard, tiger, monkey and deer ," said.