The Amur (or
Siberian) Tiger is the largest living cat in the world, and
inhabits the Russian far-east, China and North Korea, not
Siberia, making one of it's names a complete and total misnomer!
They require insane amounts of land to inhabit; one adult male
may take an area as large as 1,600 square kilometres (40x40 km)
for it's own! Due to the relative scarcity of food (also
the reason for their gigantic territories), these tigers are
known to take domestic dogs from villages when hard pressed for
nourishment, leading to hunting and conflict between humans and
these tigers. As a result they are considered endangered, and
some experts say they are now extinct outside the Amur-Ussuri
region of Russia. Iranian and Russian ecologists are now
attempting to reintroduce them to the wild in central Asia,
however.
