Panthera tigris sumatrae
• About 400 wild Sumatran tigers are believed to exist, primarily in the island's five national parks. 210 captive animals live in zoos around the world.
• The Sumatran tiger is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in habitat that ranges from lowland forest to submontain and montain forest with some peat-moss forest.
• The Sumatran tiger has the darkest coat of all tigers. Its broad, black stripes are closely spaced and often doubled. Unlike the Siberian tiger, it has striped forelegs.
• The Sumatran tiger eats wild pig, big deer (called rusa), and small deer (called muntjak or barking deer).
• The specific range size of this tiger is not know, however the population density is approximately 4–5 adult tigers/100 km2 (39 mile2) in optimal lowland rainforest. As elevation increases through submontain and montain forests, the number of tigers in any given area decreases because there is less prey available.
Panthera tigris tigris
• The estimated wild population of Bengal tigers is approximately 3,159–4,715 tigers, with about 333 in captivity, primarily in zoos in India.
• Most Bengal tigers live in India, although some range through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar.
• White tigers are simply a color variant of Bengal tigers and are rarely found in the wild.
• The Bengal tiger lives in a wide range of habitats, including the high-altitude, cold, coniferous Himalayan forests, the steaming mangroves of the Sunderbans, the swampy reedlands, the scorched hills of the Indian peninsula, the lush wet forests of Northern India, and the arid forests of Rajasthan.
• Bengal tigers prey primarily on wild deer and wild cattle.
• Their range size is estimated at 10-39 km2 (3.9–15 mile2) for females and 30-105 km2 (11.7–40.5 mile2) for males (Sunquist 1981).
