page_title: Siberian tiger
section_title: Hunting and diet
hierarchical_section_title: Siberian tiger / Ecology and behavior / Hunting and diet
caption_attribution_description: English: Siberian Tiger, Sika Deer and unidentified bird in Siberia. Diorama with taxidermied animals at Natural History Museum of Milan (Dimensions: 5x4 m, pictorial background by Uwe Thürnau)
context_page_description: The Siberian tiger is a tiger from a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, and possibly North Korea. It once ranged throughout the Korean Peninsula, north China, Russian Far East, and eastern Mongolia. Today, this population inhabits mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult and subadult Siberian tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population had been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population was declining. An initial census held in 2015 indicated that the Siberian tiger population had increased to 480–540 individuals in the Russian Far East, including 100 cubs. This was followed up by a more detailed census which revealed there was a total population of 562 wild Siberian tigers in Russia. As of 2014, about 35 individuals were estimated to range in the international border area between Russia and China.
context_section_description: Prey species of the tiger include Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus), Siberian musk deer  (Moschus moschiferus), long-tailed goral (Naemorhedus caudatus), moose (Alces alces), Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), wild boar (Sus scrofa), even sometimes small size Asiatic black bear  (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos). Siberian tigers also take smaller prey like hares, rabbits, pikas and salmon.
  Scat was collected along the international border between Russia and China between November 2014 and April 2015; 115 scat samples of nine tigers contained foremost remains of wild boar, sika deer and roe deer.
  Between January 1992 and November 1994, 11 tigers were captured, fitted with radio-collars and monitored for more than 15 months in the eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range. Results of this study indicate that their distribution is closely associated with distribution of Manchurian wapiti, while distribution of wild boar was not such a strong predictor for tiger distribution. Although they prey on both Siberian roe deer and sika deer, overlap of these ungulates with tigers was low. Distribution of moose was poorly associated with tiger distribution. The distribution of preferred habitat of key prey species was an accurate predictor of tiger distribution.
  Results of a three-year study on Siberian tigers indicate that the mean interval between their kills and estimated prey consumption varied across seasons: during 2009 to 2012, three adult tigers killed prey every 7.4 days in summer and consumed a daily average of 7.89 kg (17.4 lb); in winter they killed more large-bodied prey, made kills every 5.7 days and consumed a daily average of 10.3 kg (23 lb).
caption: A diorama at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano shows a tiger chasing a sika deer
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