Tony the Tiger, a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal mix, lives in a cage at a Louisiana truck stop. © FTTT Clayton James Eller loved going to his aunt’s house in Millers ...

That number includes all subspecies—Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, and Indochinese tigers, as well as the critically endangered South China tiger, which may already be extinct in the wild.

Inhabiting forested areas along the Amur River that marks the border between China and Russia, the Amur tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger ... are only six: the Bengal, Amur, South China ...