China is the country with the largest number of wild tiger species, in China's vast land once lived in the South China tiger, Northeast Tiger, Xinjiang tiger, Bengal tiger, Indochina tiger and other at least five kinds of tigers, but now the situation is not optimistic, not only the number of wild tiger species is reduced, the number is also surprisingly small. The most famous tiger species in China, which is also a unique tiger species in China, the South China tiger, is considered to be extinct in the wild.
South China tiger is also called Xiamen tiger, South China tiger, Chinese tiger, etc., South China tiger head round, short ears, thick and powerful limbs, long tail, chest and abdomen mixed with more milky white, the whole body orange yellow and covered with black stripes. There are short and narrow stripes on the fur, the spacing of the stripes is larger than that of Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers, and diamond-shaped stripes often appear on the side of the body, which are smaller in subspecies and are only distributed in China, but no trace of wild South China tigers has been found for decades, and now only in some zoos There are South China tigers, and the number is not large, and the population reproduction situation is worrying.
Siberian tiger, also known as Siberian tiger, is the largest and largest of the tiger species, but also the largest carnivorous cat in existence, of which the male body length of about 2.8 meters, tail length of about 1 meter, the maximum weight can reach more than 350 kg, the body color of the Siberian tiger summer hair brownish yellow, winter hair pale yellow, the back and body side have a number of horizontal black narrow stripes, usually 2 close to the willow leaf. The head is large and round, several black stripes on the forehead, the middle is often collusion with the word "king", the Siberian tiger is mainly distributed in northeast Asia, that is, the northeast region of China and the Siberian region of Russia, the Korean Peninsula, the current estimate of the number of wild Siberian tigers is not more than 500, and the wild Siberian tiger in China is only about 20.
Xinjiang tiger, also known as Lop Nur tiger, extinct in the 1940s, due to the early extinction, so there are many mysteries about the life habits and species of this tiger, and now some biologists classify it as the Caspian tiger (West Asian tiger), but the appearance of the two is quite different, but the Caspian sea tiger has also become extinct in 1989, so this species of tiger has disappeared forever.
Bengal tiger, also known as Indian tiger, is the world's second largest tiger subspecies, is currently the largest number, the most widely distributed tiger species, the current wild number of about 5,000, and the tiger subspecies has white tiger, golden tiger, silver tiger, snow tiger and other mutants, male tiger general weight of 97-260 kg, female tiger in 75-220 kg, this tiger species is mainly distributed in India and Bangladesh, is the representative animal of these two countries, However, it is believed that there are currently fewer than 40 wild Bengal tigers in southern Tibet. But there are more than 30,000 Bengal tigers in zoos worldwide.
Indochina tiger is a tiger subspecies living in the Indochina Peninsula and China's Guangxi Yunnan and other places, its morphology is very similar to the Bengal tiger, so earlier zoologists once regarded two kinds of tigers as one, until 1968 to differentiate the Indochinese tiger, in 2004 from the genetic classification, as a new tiger subspecies, the Indochinese tiger is smaller than the Bengal tiger, the coat color is deeper, the stripes are narrower, dense and slender, the distribution of indochina in the southwest region of China is very small. In February 2009, several villagers in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, ate a tiger in separate pieces, and the authoritative identification said that the tiger that was shot and stewed by the villagers was the endangered Indochinese tiger, but the authoritative data believes that the number of wild Indochinese tigers is at least about 1500, and there are about 40 in China.
So even from the current point of view, china's territory still lives at least wild Siberian tiger, Bengal tiger and Indochinese tiger three kinds of tigers, or the country with the largest number of wild tiger species, but the situation is very grim, because the number is too small, each wild tiger has the danger of extinction at any time.