Tiger
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The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large mammal, of the Felidae family. It originally lived in Asia.
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[edit] Appearance
Tigers are very large and strong, and the biggest feline. They have orange fur with black stripes, and a white underside. The black stripes usually extends to the white underside.
Sometimes there are tigers with different colors. There are White Tigers that have white fur with black stripes, or that even have pure white fur. They have blue or green eyes. White Tigers are most commonly Bengal tigers.
[edit] Habitat
Tigers live in Asia, mainly from India to China and in Southeast Asia. Tigers usually live in the forest and rainforests. They also like to live under bushes and around where there is plenty of food for them to hunt and hide.
[edit] Taxonomy
The tiger has 6 living subspecies, and 3 extinct (†) subspecies.
- Species Tiger (Panthera tigris)
- Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
- Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
- Indo-Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)
- Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
- South-Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)
- Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)
- Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) †
- Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica) †
- Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) †
[edit] Tigers and Humans
Tigers are becoming very rare, because people hunt them for their skin and destroy the forests they live in. The Bengal tiger has the biggest population with 3,500 animals and the South-Chinese tiger has the smallest population with only 20 - 30 animals left.
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