Siberian Tiger

The male Siberian Tiger is larger than the female. They grow to about 11 feet long and can weigh up to arond 230 to 270 kilograms. The Siberian Tiger has long, thick fur to keep it warm in the cold. The fur is a rusty-red/yellow and has dark stripes. The fur on their face, paws and underbelly is white with dark stripes. It has many physical attributes that it has changed over time to adapt to the cold and snowy environment of the Taiga: like growing long fur to keep warm, having beeg feet to act like snowshoes, and long legs to help it walk through snow easily. The Siberian Tiger's eyesight is 6 times better than a human's, which helps it to hunt at night. 

 

The preferred habitat of the Siberian Tiger is one with lots of snow and trees to help camouflage themselves when hunting. The habitat is slowly being reduced by logging and deforestation, which means that the Siberian Tigers may do from endangered to severely endangered in the next decade or two. There are only about 400 to 500 in the wild at the moment, but those numbers are fairly stable.

 

Siberian Tigers are carnivores, and are at top of the food chain in the areas that they live in. They can eat up to around 27 kilograms in a night. Their normal diet include things like wild Boar, Deer, Water Buffalo, Moose, Gazelle, Hares, Rabbits, Musk Deer, Lynx and Jackals, but they can also eat birds and fish that they catch themselves, like Salmon. 

 

In captivity, Siberian Tigers can live up to 35 years, but only up to about 14 years in the wild. Siberian Tigers can mate at any time of the year. They usually do this at the age of 3 years or more. Females are pregnant for about three and a half months and give birth to a litter of about two to three cubs. depending on the surrounding environment, whether there is enough food and water, and enough shelter, all of the cubs have a good chance of survival. The mother will raise these cubs for about two to three years before they become independent and leave to find territory for themselves.