Third Abnormal Behavior

A third abnormal behaviour tigers can display is overgrooming and self mutilation. This is where an animal over grooms themselves leaving uneven fur and patches and occasionally bleeding this can lead to infections and in extreme cases death if the situation gets bad enough. We can tell the animal is performing this behaviour if it is repeatedly grooming itself, there may also be fur chunks on the enclosure floor and blood where it has been laying as well as visible damage to the tigers coat.
Both in the wild and in captive, tigers have to groom themselves to maintain cleanliness, however it is only when the grooming becomes excessive or put the animal’s welfare at risk that it is classed as an abnormal behaviour.
This type of behaviour can