Indochinese tiger
panthera tigris corbetti latin

Of course, your children would be similar if they were Indochinese tigers.

Female Indochinese tigers are pregnant for around 3-4 months, before giving birth to about 5 cubs.

The Indochinese tiger is also found in hilly and mountainous areas.

The mother feeds them milk for about 2 months and then the Indochinese tiger cubs are introduced to meat.

The Indochinese tiger is also known as the Corbett's tiger.

It is also home to a female Indochinese tiger named Sala, one of only 235 worldwide.

Indochinese tigers prey mainly on medium- and large-sized wild ungulates.

Indochinese tiger cubs depend on their mother for the first 18 months and then they start hunting on their own.

Indochinese tigers are darker in colour than the Bengal tiger, and have narrow stripes which usually break up into a row of spots.

The Indochinese tiger now mainly exists in Malaysia where illegal poaching is very strictly controlled.

Newborn Indochinese tigers weigh around 1 kg (2 lb), and are blind and helpless.

Indochinese tigers also feed on muntjac deer, porcupines, macaques and hog badgers.

Between 1985 and 1988, the Zoo completed construction of the African lion, Indochinese tiger and small cat exhibits.

The last Indochinese tiger in the wild in China is believed to have been killed near Mengla in 2009.

Indochinese tigers live in secluded forests in hilly to mountainous terrain, the majority of which lies along the borders between countries.

There is no clear difference between the Malayan and the Indochinese tiger when specimens from the two regions are compared cranially or in pelage.

In 2009 the last known wild Indochinese tiger in China was killed and eaten by nearby villagers from the village of Mengla.

Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)

Mammal species including Indochinese Tiger and Yellow-cheeked Gibbon.

Peninsular Malaysia holds three big cats: the Indochinese tiger the leopard and also the clouded leopard.

Globally endangered species such as Indochinese Tiger, leopard, Asian Elephant and Gaur are also reported.

The Indochinese tiger is found throughout Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam.

However, it is presumed that they are Indochinese Tigers, except Mek, who is a Bengal Tiger.

Sambar deer, wild pig, serow, and large bovids such as banteng and young gaur make up most of the Indochinese tiger's diet.

This factor, in combination with direct tiger poaching for traditional Chinese medicine, is the main contributor in the collapse of the Indochinese tiger throughout its range.

Panthera tigris corbetti, also called Corbett's tiger, was named in honour of Jim Corbett.

Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)