It can reach over 10 feet long and weigh up to 660 pounds or more, making it the largest and heaviest wild cat species.

The world's largest big cat, the Amur tiger, is moving closer to humans in search of food, creating a nightmare situation for ...

Zookeeper Sheri Guay loves her job. As supervisor of the Milwaukee County Zoo's Florence Mila Borchert Big Cat Country area, she gets to spend her days hanging out with (and caring for) some of the ...

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With 40 species of wild cats, seven of which inhabit North America, many people will not have the opportunity to see all the big cats in the world. Notably, the Siberian, or Amur tiger, native to ...

The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is the largest subspecies of tigers. Siberian tigers are also known by several ...

Rory, a four-year-old female Amur tiger, and Rafferty, an eight-year-old male Amur leopard, arrived at Philadelphia Zoo as part of the species survival breeding program. The zoo hopes that Rory will ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — America’s oldest zoo has welcomed two new endangered big cats to help prevent their extinction. Rory, a female Amur tiger, joined the Philadelphia Zoo tiger habitat. She was born ...

Sundari, a 13-year-old female Amur tiger who gave birth to six cubs at the Minnesota Zoo, has died. The tiger, whose name was often shortened to "Dari," was humanely euthanized July 12 due to ...

The zoo announced the arrival of a new Amur tiger named Ursula, who came to Indianapolis from the Bramble Park Zoo in Watertown, South Dakota. She is currently not on exhibit as she goes through a ...