This type of tiger was considered to be an island tiger, and he was not often seen. The bali tiger had not as much stripes and was darker than other Indonesian types. They are extinct...
Also known as the Indian tiger, the bengal was common on the subcontinent of India. The Bengal reached the endangered point in the 1940's when tiger hunting was legal. The current Bengal tiger count is approximatly 7500, spread throughout India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Similar to the Bengal tiger, the Caspian tiger once roamed the farthest west of the tiger. The Caspian tiger range once covered Afganistan, Iran, the former Soviet Union and Turkey. This subspecies had been declining since the 1930's. They are extinct...
Residing in eastern China, the chinese tigers habitat includes forests and rocky mountains. This tiger, it is said, once lived in the caves along the coast near the isle of Amoy. The future of this tiger is very uncertain...
This tiger was named after the famous hunter and author Jim Corbett. This tiger is smaller and darker than the Bengal. This tiger has short stripes wich turn into spots. The range of the indochine tiger includes Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodja and parts of Burma. This tiger is the second largest in population, with 1400-1500.
This tiger is named after its homeland, the indonesian island of Java. The javan tiger is similar to the Sumatran, but is darker with more and closer stripes. A dozen or so were said to have been around in the 50's. They are extinct...
Also known as the Manchurian or Amur tiger, the siberian tiger is the largest cat in the world. This tiger is much heavier than the bengal with two to twenty one inch fur on its back and stomach. In the summer the coat becomes shorter. The siberian tigers color is lighter than the bengal with stripes that are brown and narrow. It is native to the cold of Northeast Asia and has been on the endangered list for some time. Due to conservation efforts the siberian tiger population now numbers over a thousand and is doing well in the wild, in zoos, and tiger reserves...
The sumatran tiger is from the indonesian island of Sumatra. This tiger averages eight feet in length from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail. This tiger is dark red with cream colored areas with long black stripes that are often in double layers. The sumatran tiger suffers from massive amounts of habitat destruction and out of control hunting. The total number of sumatran tigers dropped by half in the eighties, years after this tigers endangered status was made known. There are now approxomatly 600 sumatran tigers in the wild...
The sabertooth tiger was a large cat that had very long curved daggerlike teeth in the upperjaw. They ranged over Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. They lived from 40 million years ago to 20-30 thousand years ago. Personnaly I think the only relation to the tiger of today is the name. The tiger we all know and love today is genus Panthera, the sabertooth is genus Smilodon.
