At the Zoo, tigers eat ground beef, and their diet is supplemented with enrichment items each week. They receive knucklebones or cow femurs twice a week and rabbits once a week to exercise their jaws and keep their teeth healthy.
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To meet our big cats' needs, we feed them three diet items: whole rabbits, which are a good substitute for the skin and organs of large prey; ground meat, representing the muscle tissue of a kill; and bones, which help our cats maintain strong jaw pressure and clean their teeth.
In captivity, tigers eat considerably less because of sedentary life styles that burn fewer calories (Hines). Captive large cats should eat 9-18 pounds of meat (4-6% of their body weight) when fed five times a week.