Who is the largest tiger? Many people could answer the Siberian Tiger. Although Siberian tiger has bigger body than other tiger groups, it is not necessarily the biggest tiger. Today we introduce several large tigers, from the largest to the smallest, to satisfy people’s curiosity about tigers.

Liger

Number one is the liger, which is not actually a tiger subspecies. Liger is an artificial animal, which is the offspring of a tigress and a lion, and does not exist in nature.

It has the head of a lion and the body of a tiger, the body is particularly large, can reach 450 kilograms, larger than the Siberian tiger. Although fierce, but it is sickly, almost no fighting ability. This artificial giant is born with a lot of genetic defects, and its immunity is so poor that it cannot survive independently in the wild.

Liger is the largest felid in the world. Currently, there are only a few dozen left in the world. Zoos in various countries are constantly cultivated to satisfy people’s curiosity and have certain ornamental value. The study is valuable, not only for understanding how life evolved, but also for understanding the role, function and position of various genes in living organisms.

Liger – Hercules, is the largest felid in the world.

The body length is 332.74 cm, the weight is 418.2 kg, and the shoulder height is 124.46 cm, which means the longest, heaviest and highest. Hercules lives in South Carolina State Park, eats 25 kilograms of meat a day.

Siberian Tiger

Second place is the Siberian tiger. Also known as the manchurian tiger, it was once the largest cat in the felid. It reached 3.3 meters in length and weighed more than 300 kilograms, equivalent to the weight of five adult men.

Due to the relatively cold living environment, the fur of the Siberian tiger is very thick, has a strong defense ability, and the combat effectiveness is also extremely terrible, with a bite force of nearly half a ton, and a palm can stun small animals. The true king of the forest, they haunt the forest like ghosts.

Siberian tiger is a typical solitary animal, often shows at night. Its sensitive senses, fierce temperament, swift action, and be good at swimming. It will not climb trees, rarely attack humans.

Siberian tigers are found in northeast Asia, the Russian Far East and Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces of northeast China, and may still exist in northern Korea. Due to habitat destruction and poaching, there are only about 500 Siberian tigers left in the wild.

To protect the breeding of Siberian tigers. Since its establishment in 1986, the number of Siberian tigers at the Hengdaohezi Felid Breeding Center in China has grown from eight species to nearly a thousand.

And the ecological protection measures implemented by the Chinese Forestry Administration in the past 30 years have improved the living environment of the Siberian tiger. With the recovery of the ecological environment, the wild pigs, sika deers and other animals also grown up, the wild tigers also have a steady diet.

Bengal Tiger

Third place is the Bengal Tiger. The national animal of India, it is 2.9 meters long, weighs 250 kilograms, and is covered in muscles, and is rated as one of the most charismatic large animals in the world.

Its teeth are particularly strong, as long as more than 10 centimeters, very destructive, temper is also the most violent, born with aggression. It will take the initiative to attack all animals in front of it, and even dare to prey on the world’s largest white limb.

By 2011, habitat destruction and poaching had reduced the wild population to less than 2,000.

The Bengal tiger is a powerful predator. It is well suited for hunting large prey, with short, muscular forelimbs and long, sharp, retractable claws. It also has a slender, strong and flexible body, a short, thick neck and broad, powerful shoulders that are good for catching and subduing other large prey. The skull was shortened, increasing the strength of the powerful jaws that could be extended, allowing the tiger to clamp down tightly on its captured prey.

Caspian Tiger

Fourth place, the Caspian Tiger. Also known as Persian tiger, it is 2.8 meters long and weighs about 220 kilograms. It is very strong. The tigress will eat the emaciated or dead cubs, which also makes the surviving tigers have extremely high combat power. Unfortunately, the fierce and powerful Caspian tiger was declared extinct by the world in 1981.

Caspian tigers generally reach sexual maturity at the age of 3 to 4 years. Female tigers usually give birth to 3-4 cubs at a time, and in general, no more than two survive, and dead and emaciated tiger cubs will be eaten by female tigers. Eleven weeks after birth, tiger cubs begin to learn to hunt animals on their own and live for 10-15 years.

The Caspian tiger is a solitary predator, preferring to go it alone, and when it finds its prey, it will strike at close range, killing the target. After capturing their prey, they usually drag it to a secluded spot and then leisurely feed alone.

Caspian tigers never leave water sources and sometimes swim across streams and lakes in search of new hunting grounds. When they meet the prey, they generally sneak up on the prey under the cover of grass, and then launch a sudden attack, hunting deer, antelope and other animals that can be killed.

Indochinese Tiger

Indochinese tiger male tiger body length 2.55-2.85 meters, weight 150-195 kg; The female tiger is 2.30-2.55 meters long and weighs 100-130 kilograms. It is one of the smaller species of tiger.

It prefers to live in tropical and subtropical rainforests, dry and wet deciduous forests, evergreen forests, broad-leaved forests. It is mainly found in deep woods in mountainous areas. It is carnivorous, mainly preying on medium and large ungulate wild animals. Examples include water deer, slope deer, wild boar, serow, white-butted bison, and other large bovids.

South China Tiger

The South China Tiger is a subspecies of tiger endemic in China, which is one of the top ten endangered animals. The South China tiger is small, the male is about 2.5 meters long and weighs about 150 kg. The female tiger is about 2.3 meters long and weighs about 120 kilograms.

Due to human hunting, almost no trace of the wild South China tiger can be found in the wild, and it is very likely that it has been extinct in the wild. Now the South China tiger can only live in zoos, because the number is extremely rare, has been listed in China’s ten endangered animals, one of the national level protection of animals, red species list critically endangered, become the world’s rarest tiger.

It is a typical mountain forest dwelling animal, living in tropical rain forests and evergreen broad-leaved forests in southern China, and also commonly found in mountain deciduous broad-leaved forests and mixed forests with more rocks or gravel. Live alone, not in groups. They are mostly active at night, have a developed sense of smell, are agile, good at swimming, but not good at climbing trees. Carnivorous. It feeds on herbivorous animals such as wild boars and roe deers.

Sumatran Tiger

The Sumatran tiger is the smallest of all extant tiger subspecies. Male Sumatran tigers average 234 cm in length (head to tail) and 120 kg in weight, while females average 198 cm in length and 90 kg in weight.

The Sumatran tiger’s habitat is mainly tropical rainforests in the Sumatran islands, and its range depends on the density of prey and the size of its habitat. The average density of the distribution is 5 tigers per 100 square km.

The main food is water deer, wild boar, porcupine, crocodile, young rhinoceros and young elephants. Unlike cheetahs and lions, which live on the plains, Sumatran tigers in the rainforest must rely on stealth to attack their prey.

Javan Tiger

The Javan tiger is a small tropical island tiger of the carnivorous Feline leopard genus, with a body length of about 155 cm and a shoulder height of about 80 cm.

It is one of the three species of tiger in Indonesia. They live on the island of Java and feed on wild boar and other animals. However, due to habitat loss and local demand for tiger fur and bones, the Javan tiger became extinct in the 1980s. The last witness was in 1979.

The Javan tiger is distributed in the southern mountain jungle of Java Island, with good vision, hearing and smell, and strong adaptability to climate conditions. Except for the breeding season, male and female activities together, other times are all solitary. The Javan tiger has a large range of activities, with a foraging range of tens of kilometers in the north, and a short range in the south because of more food.

Here is map about tigers of the world (the grey represents extinction)

Funny questions for us:

Can you build the world’s largest tiger?

Answer – We can make life size even bigger animatronic ligers or Siberian tigers. (Use silicone, steel, foam, oil colors…to make animatronic tigers)

Why did some tigers become extinct?

Answer – The environment has been destroyed by humans, resulting in less food and habitat for tigers. Greedy humans also capture tigers and profit from their fur, bones, etc.

What’s the point of you bringing back extinct tigers?

Answer – We business animatronic animals. We also believe that reconstruction of extinct tigers or other animals could educate people’s awareness about Human & Nature.

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