Hope you enjoy this precious cub and mother acrylic painting. According to online sources, a newborn baby tiger, or cub, is born blind and is completely dependent on its mother. It weighs between 1.75 to 3.5 or average between two and three pounds. Its eyes will open sometime between six to twelve days. However, it will not have its full vision for a couple of weeks. For the first eight weeks of its life, it will be kept safely, usually in a cozy cave that its mother built before the cubs? birth. (Usually, she births two to four cubs at a time. Over half of all cubs do not survive to age two.) Mother nurses them for the first few weeks of their life. At approximately six to eight weeks of life, she begins introducing meat to them. When the cub reaches the age of two months, they are allowed to leave the safety of the den. Over the next few months, they will spend time learning how to hunt independently, learning by observing and doing practice hunts. Usually capable of hunting for themselves by the age of 18 months, both males and females remain with their mothers until they are around 2.5 years old.