Siberian+Tigers

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Habitat
The habitat of the Siberian Tiger is mostly the cold unforgiving lands of Siberia but some have been found in Northern China and North Korea. They are the northern most tiger out of all of the 5 tiger subspecies. Its territory is usually between 10 to 30 square miles but sometimes they can be as big as 120 square miles. Most of the time tiger territories overlap with the male territory overlapping that of the several female's. As of today there are about 5 to 7 thousand tigers left in Asia and those 5,000 to 7,000 tigers come from all the five subspecies.

Diet
The Siberian Tiger's diet are wild cattle, wild pig and several species of deer. All of its prey are from forest or grassland biomes and can range from 65 to 2,000 pounds in weight. The Siberian Tiger tends to gorge themselves on fresh kills and can eat up to 40 pounds of eat at one time. After such a big meal it will be able to survive off that for several days without having to make another kill.

Conservation & Ecology
The Siberan Tiger's numbers are having trouble increasing because their habitat is being destroyed leaving little space for prey to feed on, thus the Siberian Tiger's prey is dying because farmers are moving farther and farther into the forest. As a result the Siberian Tiger is forced to feed on livestock and on the rare occasion might attack a human. The settlers are forced to protect themselves from the tigers by them which decreases the tiger population. Also although poaching as been banned tigers are still being killed for their body parts and coat because they can sell for a lot on the black market.

Status
At the begining of this century there were 100,000 wild tigers now there are as few as 8,000 left in the wild. These tiger populations are all the tiger species combined. The main threat to their endangerment is habitat destruction, poaching, and population fragmentation.

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