The Tiger and the Cub was created by August Nicholas Kane (Auguste Nicolas Cain), a representative of the 19th century French animal sculpture school. The statue was originally located in the Tuileri Garden in Paris. Due to lawn protection regulations (no trampling on the grass), one side of the statue was moved from 30 meters outside the park boundary.

Tigers belong to the feline carnivore family and hunt a variety of animals for food. They are usually accustomed to hunting from dawn to sunset and mainly feed on large mammals. It can hunt prey larger than its own size, and a tiger weighing 250 kilograms can hunt an Indian bison weighing 900 kilograms. Tigers in the wild can eat up to 40 kilograms of meat at a time. Without disturbance, they usually return to the hunting site within three to six days after catching prey to enjoy the remaining food until there is little left. The difference between tigers and other cats is that they are good at swimming.

It is a large feline in the mammalian class, with nine subspecies and significant differences in body size and morphology between each subspecies. The Siberian tiger is the largest, with a male body length of up to 3.7 meters and a weight of 423 kilograms. The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living subspecies, with a male tiger measuring 2.34 meters in length and weighing 136 kilograms. Tigers are typical mountain forest dwelling animals that can thrive in tropical rainforests and evergreen broad-leaved forests in the south, as well as deciduous broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the north. Due to human hunting and fragmentation of wild habitats, tigers have become rare and endangered species. A 2016 survey showed that there were 3890 wild tigers worldwide.

It is a large feline in the mammalian class, with nine subspecies and significant differences in body size and morphology between each subspecies. The Siberian tiger is the largest, with a male body length of up to 3.7 meters and a weight of 423 kilograms. The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living subspecies, with a male tiger measuring 2.34 meters in length and weighing 136 kilograms. Tigers are typical mountain forest dwelling animals that can thrive in tropical rainforests and evergreen broad-leaved forests in the south, as well as deciduous broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the north. Due to human hunting and fragmentation of wild habitats, tigers have become rare and endangered species. A 2016 survey showed that there were 3890 wild tigers worldwide.