The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a regularly used subspecies of the tiger that only occurs on Sumatra. In the taxonomic revision of the IUCN taskgroup published in 2017, it is considered as one subspecies together with the extinct P. t. balica and P. t. sondaica: P. t. sondaica.This subspecies is smaller than the other subspecies and has a dark brown colour. 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.
Photographed in DIergaarde Blijdorp
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