Epidural anesthesia is a regional anesthesia that blocks pain in a particular region of the body. The goal of an epidural is to provide analgesia, or pain relief, rather than anesthesia, which leads to total lack of feeling. Epidurals block the nerve impulses from the lower spinal segments.
Tigers live for about 25 years both in captivity and in the wild. 42. Cats in general have been found to have a better memory than any other animal, including humans, being several hundred times better than dogs and dozens of times better than primates.
Bengal tigers are just one of several subspecies of tiger. It is not known if or how their lifespan differs from other tigers, but a lifespan of eight to 10 years in the wild is typical for the species. In captivity, most die in their teens. The longest-lived tiger ever on record was a Bengal tiger. The animal, named Guddu, lived in a zoo in India and died at the age of 26.