My favorite animal is a tiger! I love cats. If I was an animal I'd want to be a tiger.
The scientific name of the tiger is Panthera tigris.  Tigers are really cool.  What do you like about them so much?
I like the way they look and move and how they are so graceful, yet strong. I like white tigers a lot actually.
The tiger is also related to the panther, lion, leopard and jaguar as part of Genus Panthera.  I teach Biology.  Do you like any other relatives of the Tiger?
I like cheetah too, and lynx, called a bobcat in some places I believe?
Yeah.  Good job.  Tigers are considered apex predators because they feed on deer and bovids.  Cheetahs are interesting.
Apex predators...hmm I never heard of this term. I think cheetahs are one of the fastest animals on Earth.
Didn't know that.  Tigers have lost 93 % of their historic range because of hunters
This is so sad, I heard they are an endangered species in some places already. 
Today they can be found in the Siberian taiga and open grasslands not giving them many places to hide.