The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a regularly used subspecies of the tiger that only occurs on Sumatra. This subspecies is smaller than the other subspecies and has a dark brown color. Furthermore, the coat is dark orange. This animal used to be found all over Sumatra, but nowadays there are only 800 specimens left, 350 of them in the wild. The stripe pattern often consists of two parallel rows.
The Sumatran tiger differs from other tigers in the size of some parts of the skull.
Photographed in Koninklijke Burgers' Zoo
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