Stephen Gayford - Artist

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If you are interested in acquiring this painting or would like further information please contact me Water Babies After about a hundred days of pregnancy, the mother Tiger looks for a thickly vegetated area or any other secure hiding place as a den for her cubs. Two, three or four small, blind cubs are born. They are completely helpless and have to be protected from predators. At birth, the cubs weigh a kilo and are nursed by their mother until they are six months old. At the slightest indication of danger, the tigress picks up her cubs with her mouth and moves them one by one to a safer spot. This secret place also needs to be near a waterhole so that the tigress will be able to hunt more easily and be able to feed them properly. When the cubs are three or four months old, the mother takes them out on their first visit to the forest, and by the time they are six months old, the cubs are growing very fast and need to eat a lot. They travel more at this age, and over longer distances, but they still need their mother to help them learn about the sights and sounds of the forest around them. During the next 18 months, they gradually become independent, and at about two years of age strike out alone to find their own territory. Females may establish a territory adjacent to that of their mother, or even take over part of their mother's territory. Link to Us Privacy Photo Gallery Guestbook 13"x10” - 33x25cm Acrylic on Canvas