Tigers can indeed change their stripes—and in the Similipal Tiger Reserve in India, many have done just that. So-called black tigers, genetic mutants that sport unusually wide and merged stripes ...

Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for illegally buying endangered ...

There are 9 subspecies of tiger: 6 are endangered and 3 are already extinct. Find out which types of tigers are still around and how to protect them.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, Sumatran tigers — also known as Sunda tigers — are critically endangered, and fewer than 400 individuals are believed to remain in the wild today.

The tigers are pseudomelanistic, meaning they have wide, merged stripes along their body. (That’s not to be confused with leucistic tigers, which are white with black stripes due to a different ...

tigers Humans hunted the tiger population down to just 5,000 to 7,000 individuals worldwide by the late 1990s. That was considered a dangerously low number then.

The Malayan tiger is a critically endangered species — with fewer than 200 left in the wild, ... sides, face and tail, and there are black stripes on the body, face and tail.

Dara, a Malayan Tiger, is being transferred to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo from the Tulsa Zoo. Malayan Tigers are considered critically endangered with only 250-340 individuals remaining in the wild.

Prosecutors said Doc Antle sold or bought cheetahs, lions, tigers and a chimpanzee without the proper paperwork for a decade.