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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni, Malay: Harimau Belang), found in the southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula[1], until 2004 was not considered a subspecies in its own right. The new classification came about after a study by Luo S-J et al. from the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, part of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Recent counts showed there are 600-800 Malayan tigers in the wild, making it the largest tiger population other than the Bengal and Indochinese tigers. It is, nevertheless, still an endangered sub-species.
The Malayan tiger, along with the Sumatran tiger, is perhaps the smallest subspecies of tiger. Its stripe pattern is similar to the Indochinese tiger but its size is closer to the Sumatran tigers with average weight of 120 kg for adult males and 100 kg for females. [2] Male Malayan tigers measures around 237cm in length from head to tail and female Malayan tigress around 200cm in length. |
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