The Greatest from Sumatra

Sumatran Tigris

Kingdom : Animalia

Phylum : Chordata

Class : Mammalia

Order : Carnivo

Suborder : Feliformia

Family : Felidae

Subfamily : Pantherinae

Genus : Panthera

Species : Panthera tigris

Subspecies : Panthera tigris sondaica

Sumatran tiger is an original animal from Indonesia which can only be found in the Territory of Sumatra Island. This Tiger is the smallest tiger of his species. Sumatran tiger has a height about 75 cm, length of its body is about 250 cm and its weight is about 250 kg. His body is patterned with black and orange color which transverse in their body. The Sumatran tiger’s striped looks thinner when compared to other types of another tigers. Male Sumatran tiger has a unique identity. They have mane around their bottom neck. These manes are hairs that are longer than other hair in its body. Their small body makes it easier for them to explore the dense forests and also make them as the King of the jungle. Sumatran tiger has a very loud and awful roaring sound. Sometimes they also emit another frequently Meong sound and the sound of sizzle performed while they are threatened.

Sumatran tigers live solitary. They live alone in the Woods. However, when they are hunting, they will look in pair and cooperate each other. One of them drove off the prey towards the other who is waiting on shrubs. They usually hunt in the afternoon ahead of the evening. Sumatran tigers mark their hunting area with howling which is very hard to be listened from a great distance. They are not focused on one place only as their territory hunting, but they always moving.

Sumatran tiger has no particular breading season. They can breed at any time. They have pregnancy of their baby for about 103 days. Generally the Sumatran Tigress would have two or three baby tiger. Newborn tiger baby could not see because their eyes are closed. The tiger baby will open their eyes on the tenth day of the day of their birth. Sumatran tiger baby are only drinking milk water from their mother for 8 weeks. However, at the age of 5 or 6 months they can eat solid foods such as meat and insects. Sumatran tiger baby will leave the nest at the age of 2 weeks. They learn to hunt at the age of 6 months and can hunt alone at the age of 18 months. At the age of 2 years old tiger begin live alone in the wild. Sumatran tiger can survive for 15 years in the wild, and 20 years in the cage.

Sumatran tiger in its natural habitat eats a medium-sized mammal such as deer, wild boar, and also small-sized mammals such as monkeys, birds, and reptilian who they meet in the Woods. On the sidelines of their fingers, there are membranes that make them able to swim quickly. The Sumatran tiger is always cornering his prey into the water, especially for the prey which cannot swim. This is done to make them easy to catch their prey.

The Sumatran tiger is able to live anywhere, from lowland forests to mountain forest. The Sumatran tiger population in the wild is experiencing a threat. They lose natural habitat because of the opening of forest as farmland. Sumatran tigers also are being hunted by humans to take their skin. These skins can be used as raw material for the manufacture of clothing and bags.


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