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The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes.
The Siberian tiger is often considered to be the largest tiger. [31] A wild male, killed in Manchuria by the Sungari River in 1943, reportedly measured 350 cm (140 in) "over the curves", with a tail length of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in).
The Siberian, or Amur, tiger (P. tigris altaica) is the largest, measuring up to 4 meters (13 feet) in total length and weighing up to 300 kg (660 pounds). The Indian, or Bengal, tiger (P. tigris tigris) is the most numerous and accounts for about half of the total tiger population.
Siberian tiger, subspecies of tiger (Pantheria tigris) inhabiting the cold-climate forests of the Primorye and Khabarovsk territories of far-eastern Russia as well as northeastern China. It is considered by many experts to be the world’s largest tiger, and fewer than 600 remain in the wild.
The tiger is the largest living cat species and clearly dwarfs all other extant felines by a substantial degree. With their distinctive coloring and stripes, tigers appear both majestic and intimidating.
The largest Siberian tiger ever recorded lived in captivity and weighed 932 lbs (423kg), his name was Jaipur. When measured from nose to tail, he was 10 ft 11 inches long (3.32m). Jaipur was owned by an American trainer and is the largest tiger officially on record.
One of the world’s largest, and most uniquely-adapted, tiger populations are found in the Sundarbans—a large mangrove forest area shared by India and Bangladesh on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is also the only coastal mangrove tiger habitat in the world.
The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is the world's largest cat. But with only 400 left in the wild, this rare giant is in danger of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss.
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
Siberian (or Amur) tigers may be the world's largest cats. They live primarily in eastern Russia's birch forests, though some exist in China and North Korea. Though their northern climate is far...