The Bengal tiger, or Royal Bengal tiger, is the most common type of tiger in the world, though there are only about 3, 900 of them left in the wild. Most live in Bangladesh, India, and the main threats they face are poaching and habitat loss.
Their fur colors range from yellow to light orange, with white fur on their bellies and the interiors of their legs. Their black stripes vary from animal to animal, and no two sets of stripes are the same. The average male cat is about 110 to 120 inches long and weighs 386 to 573 pounds. Females are generally 94 to 104 inches long and weigh around 220 to 350 pounds.
Bengal tigers' diets are made mostly up of large ungulates (or hooved animals), such as chital, sambar deer and occasionally even water buffalo. An adult tiger can eat up to 80 pounds of meat in one night, though they often go without food for several days due to lack of successful hunting. Bengal tigers need to eat about 5,000 pounds of meat a year to sustain themselves.
The Siberian tiger is the largest type of tiger in the world, with the average size for male tigers being 10 feet long from nose to tip of the tail and weighing about 397 to 675 pounds. Females are generally around 8 feet long and weigh 303 pounds. The skull of a Siberian tiger is characterized by its large size and is very stong around the canines, which can be up to 3.0 inches long.
Siberan tigers live mostly in the Russian Far East and Northeast China, where they prey on species such as the Siberian musk deer, moose and sometimes even small Asiatic black bears. On average, they need to eat around 20 pounds of meat a day to survive the cold of their habitats.
There are less than 500 Siberian tigers left in the world. Two of the main threats they face are poaching and a lack of genetic diversity, especially in the Sikhote Alin mountain range in Russia.
The Malayan tiger was classified as being critically endangered in 2015, and there are currently less than 200 of them left in the world. They're expected to go extinct within the next 5 to 10 years unless immediate action is taken.
Malayan tigers are native to Peninsular Malaysia and prey primarily on sambar deer, barking deer and wild boar. They've been known to occassionally even hunt sun bears, young elephants and young rhinoceros. Although some occassionally prey on livestock, they also help control the population of wild boars, which can become serious pests on farms and plantations.
The main threats faced by Malayan tigers are habitat fragmentation, agriculture and poaching. Organizations such as the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT) are working to save the Malayan tiger by implimenting a hotline to report tiger-related crimes such as poaching. To help discourage poaching, they even organize "Cat Walks," in which citizens patrol zones with high poaching rates.
