The forward pass was allowed for the first time during the 1906 college football season. Although there was no obvious national champion, there were two teams that had won all nine of their games as the 1906 season came to an end, the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs, and they played to a 0–0 […]
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The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognizable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. It is an apex predator, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and wild boar. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, requiring large contiguous areas of habitat, which support its requirements for prey and rearing of its
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is “nocturnal“, versus diurnal meaning the opposite. Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination (see metaturnal). Others, such as bushbabies and
This list contains terrestrial members of the order Carnivora with an average reported mass of 160 kilograms or more, all bears and pantherine cats.
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