The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is a very rare subspecies of the tiger. The Siberian tiger is also known as Amur tiger, Korean tiger, Manchurian tiger, North Chinese tiger, or Ushur tiger, depending on where it occurs. Research has shown that the Siberian tiger is genetically almost identical to the Caspian tiger, which became extinct in 1970.[2] The Siberian tiger has no fixed mating period and keeps itself alive by eating other mammals, sometimes twice as large as the tiger itself.[source?] It is the largest of the felines.
The animal is rare in the wild, in 2011 the population was estimated at about 500.[3] The genetic diversity in the wild is limited, which means that genetic abnormalities are easily transmitted from generation to generation.[3] In 2005, 220 Siberian tigers were kept in zoos, wherever they reproduce, often as part of a breeding programme.
Photographed in Ouwehands Dierenpark
We are Loek and Karin Lobel, and our passion is animal photography, both in the wild and in zoos.
We are loek en Karin Lobel and we love to take pictures in the wild but also in the Zoo...
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