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.
1 Tigers can live up to 26 years in captivity and 10-15 years in the wild. 2  There are more tigers living in captivity than their are in the wild. 3  The only predator to a tiger is a human.  A major threat to tigers is loss of habitat and hunting.