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|name=Tiger
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|image=Bengal tiger.jpg
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|caption=Bengal tiger<br/>''Panthera tigris tigris''
|domain=Eukaryota
|domain=Eukaryota
|kingdom=Animalia
|kingdom=Animalia
Tigers are almost unique among the great cats in that they are fond of swimming. Though not as arboreal as the [[leopard]], they can climb trees. They can make horizontal leaps of up to 33 feet (10 meters) although half that distance is more typical, and can sprint in short bursts of 35 to 40mph depending on subspecies.<ref>http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Panthera_tigris.html</ref>
Tigers are almost unique among the great cats in that they are fond of swimming. Though not as arboreal as the [[leopard]], they can climb trees. They can make horizontal leaps of up to 33 feet (10 meters) although half that distance is more typical, and can sprint in short bursts of 35 to 40mph depending on subspecies.<ref>http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Panthera_tigris.html</ref>
==Subspecies==
*Amur, or Siberian tiger, ''Panthera tigris altaica''
:Found in far-eastern Russia near the border of Manchuria (China). Current population estimates are 300-400 adult individuals.
*Bengal tiger, ''Panthera tigris tigris''
:Found in India, with a range extending into Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, and Nepal.
*Indochinese, or Corbett's tiger, ''Panthera tigris corbetti''
:Found in southeast Asia, extending north into southern China; current estimates number up to 650 tigers alive in the wild. This subspecies was named for former big game hunter and British Army Colonel Jim Corbett around 1910, who turned to conservation of thetigers and their habitat.
*Malayan tiger, ''Panthera tigris jacksoni''
:Found in Thailand and the Malay Peninsula; current estimates number around 500 tigers.
*South-China tiger, ''Panthera tigris amoyensis''
:Found in eastern China. Demand for Chinese traditional medicine reduced the number of these tigers to an estimated 100 individuals left in the wild, with 50 in zoos. The subspecies is considered ecologically extinct, i.e. no effective breeding population in the wild.
*Sumatran tiger, ''Panthera tigris sumatrae''
:Found on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Hunting and habitat loss reduced these tigers to approximately 500.
====The following subspecies became extinct during the last century:====
*Bali tiger, ''Panthera tigris balica''
:Found only on the island of Bali, Indonesia, this subspecies had to co-exist with man on an island approximately 2,175 square miles in size; increased contact led to the tigers being hunted, with the last one killed in 1937.
*Caspian, or Turanian tiger, ''Panthera tigris virgata''
:Only tiger found in western Asia near the Caspian Sea, as far west as eastern Turkey and northern Iran. The last one was spotted near the Aral River in 1968.
*Javan tiger, ''Panthera tigris sondaica''
:The last wild tiger on the island of Java, Indonesia, was seen in the Meru Betiri National Park, 1976; it was declared extinct four years later.
== Man-eating tigers ==
== Man-eating tigers ==