Photo gallery No. 1

The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to 3.3 m and weighing up to 306 kg. Its most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. There are 9 subspecies of tiger, three of which are extinct. Their historical range in Bangladesh, Siberia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China, and southeast Asia, including three Indonesian islands is severely diminished today. The surviving subspecies, in descending order of wild population, are:
Bengal tiger, Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, Sumatran tiger, Siberian tiger and South China tiger.