A tigress gives birth to her young in some dense patch of cover in a cave or under a rough shelter of rocks. The tiger appears to desert its mate shortly before or after the cubs are born. The mother keeps the nursery clean, who attends to the toilet of the cubs, licking them with her great rough tongue until they can lick themselves or each
other clean.When they stray from their lair she brings them back, carrying them by gripping the loose skin of the neck with her teeth. The young are insistent in their demands for attention. For the first few days the mother remains constantly with them, later hunger compels her to go out and hunt. Training in hunting begins in the nursery. The cubs erouch and leap at each other. What seems pointless play with the mother�s tail is gaining of skill in approach and attack. In tigers the mother first brings the young to the kill she has made, at
the age of six wks and it is not until they are about a year old that they start accompanying her on her hunt.She then helps them to make first kill. She will first catch a small animal, injured but not dead. Then she leaves it for her cub to catch it and make their first kill.