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TIGER FACTS

FACTUAL INFORMATION

SPECIES
Bengal

Indochinese

Siberian

South China

Sumatra

Only approx 5,000/7,000 survive in the wild, and they are spread across Asia.

The Northernmost living Tiger, the Amur or Siberian Tiger, lives primarily in southeastern Russia.

The South China tiger occurs only in southern China.

The range of the Indochinese tiger extends across most of Southeast Asia.

The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India.

The Sumatran tiger is restricted to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The Bali, Caspian and Javan tigers have become extinct in the past 70 years.

The tiger is found in a variety of habitats, from the tropical evergreen and deciduous forests of southern Asia to the confierous, scrub oak, birch woodlands of Siberia. It also thrives in the mangrove swamps of the sunderbans, and dry thorn forests of northwestern India, and tall grass jungles at the foot of Himalayas. Tigers are found in the Himalayan valleys, and tracks have been recorded in winter snow at 3,000 metres. The tiger's habitat requirements can be summarized as, some form of dense vegetative cover, sufficient large ungulate prey and access to water.

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