Tigers take personality tests, turns out they have unique personalities

After 248 Siberian tigers underwent a personality test, researchers discovered that the predatory species have personalities that vary from each other. This shows individualistic nature.

Rosalind Arden of the London School of Economics said that the team found that tigers are very individual and that people who've worked with them and know them well see their individual personalities, reported AFP.

The team modified a commonly used human personality test for tigers and analysed traits like confidence, sincerity, bullying, and savagery. Veterinarians and feeders who work with the tigers every day answered a questionnaire with a list of 70 indicators. Experts have concluded that tigers fall into two comprehensive categories - majesty and steadiness.

As per the data, tigers who scored high in 'majesty' were healthier. They also preyed more on live animals, ate more, and mated more. Their human companions also rated them to have higher group status among tigers. While these may seem like an evolutionary advantage, the other group is not weaklings.

Tigers who scored high in steadiness were more collaborative, gentler, sincere, and loving. Experts think the nurturing aspect of these traits plays a role during the time tiger cubs remain with their mothers, which is two to three years.

Arden observed that you don't have to be dominant, fierce, competitive, and aggressive in order to succeed as a tiger because father tigers were also seen taking part in raising the young cubs.