Asia
Endangered Animals
Introduction
Reaching from 3/3 feet from it's shoulders, is the Tiger. From head to body it reaches a wild 4.6 to 9.2 feet. It's weight reaches to 400-675 Ibs and it lives for 10 to 15 years! They have a sport long, thick reddish coats with white bellies and white-black tails. Their heads, bodies, tails and legs have narrow black, brown or gray stripes. These bold cats live in Bengal, Siberia, South China, Sumatra, Malaya, Caspian, Javan, Korea, and Bali.
Bengal tiger: Less than 2,000
Indochinese tiger: 750-1,300
Siberian tiger: Around 450
Sumatran tiger: 400-500
Malayan tiger: 600-800
South Chinese tiger: Extinct in the wild
Caspian tiger: Extinct
Javan tiger: Extinct
Bali tiger: Extinct
Description
Habitats
Adaptation
Diet
Reason of Endangerment
igers are native to much of Asia, from some of the coldest regions to the steamy rainforests of the Indonesian Islands. They are the top predator in every ecosystem they inhabit.
Until the 20th Century there were nine tiger subspecies that probably numbered over 100,000 animals. They included the giant 660-pound, or 300 kilo, Siberian (Pantera tigris altaica) and Caspian (Pantera tigris virgata; now extinct) tigers as well as the relatively small—and now also extinct—200-pound (90 kilo) Balinese tiger. Depending on whether there are any remaining South China tigers—nobody has seen one in years—there are either 5 or 6 tiger subspecies remaining in existence; all are endangered. All tiger subspecies put together currently amount to around 3,200 endangered tigers remaining in the wild.
Work Cited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XefhBqSTmA
http://www.miamisci.org/youth/unity/Unity1/Jasmine/pages/description%20of%20the%20tiger.html
http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/endangered-tigers-facts
Orr, Richard. A visual Introduction to Wildcats