Tiger

Tiger

Basic Informations:

Scientific name:   Panthera tigris.

Lifespan:              20 – 26 years.

Speed:                  30 – 40 mph.

Height:                 3 – 3.6 ft. (Bengal tiger, At Shoulder).      

Length:                 8.9 – 10 ft. (Bengal tiger, Male).

The tiger is the largest member of the felid (cat) family. They sport long, thick reddish coats with white bellies and white and black tails. Their heads, bodies, tails and limbs have narrow black, brown or gray stripes.

There are 9 subspecies of Tigers.

1)Sumatran Tiger:

Tigers are the largest members of the cat family (Felidae) and one of the most charismatic endangered species on the planet.

Population=around 400-500

2)Siberian tiger:

Amur tigers (also known as Siberian, Manchurian, Ussurian, or Northeast China tigers) are the largest of the tiger subspecies.

Population=around 450

3)Bengal tiger:

The most numerous of the tiger species, the Bengal tiger is found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

Population=around 2,000 

4)South Chinese tiger:

Found in central and eastern China, the South China tiger is listed as Critically Endangered on the Red List one step higher than Endangered.

Population=Extinct in wild

5)Malayan tiger:

The Malayan tiger was only identified as being a separate subspecies from the Indochinese tiger in 2004. It is very similar to the Indochinese tiger, but is smaller in size.

Population= 600-800

6)Indochinese tiger:

Also known as Corbett's tiger, after British hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett, this subspecies is found in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam and formerly in China. They are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Population= 750-1,300

7)Bali tiger

One of the three extinct subspecies of tiger, the Bali tiger went extinct in the 1940's, according to the Save the Tigers Fund.Tigers were last positively recorded in western Bali in the late 1930s, according to the IUCN.

Population= Extinct.

8)Javan tiger: 

This now-extinct species inhabited the Indonesian island of Java into the 1980's.Tigers were last positively recorded from Java's Meru Betiri National Park in 1976, and likely disappeared from much of the rest of the island by the 1940s, according to the IUCN.

Population=Extinct

9)Caspian tiger:

Population= Extinct.