The back of a tiger could have been a blank canvas. Instead, nature painted the big cat with parallel stripes, evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. Scientists don't know exactly how stripes ...

If told to imagine a "typical" cat, you're doing well if you think "tiger-striped." That's because the tabby pattern, with its familiar stripes, is the most common in all of catdom. It's so dominant ...

Why do tigers have orange and black stripes? asks students in Howard Cohen's class at Francis Lewis High School, in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Tigers are the biggest of the big cats; some can weigh more ...