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|introduction={{quote|I'm Sumatran Tiger! Eh? It's difficult to pronounce? Please properly say it okay? I'm being called "The little one" by Bengal-chan and Siberian-chan; I wonder if that's true? I'm good at swimming and climbing tree; I'm strong in my own house! Geez, I'm going to roar okay? Grr, Grr, Grr|Sumatran Tiger's introduction}} | |introduction={{quote|I'm Sumatran Tiger! Eh? It's difficult to pronounce? Please properly say it okay? I'm being called "The little one" by Bengal-chan and Siberian-chan; I wonder if that's true? I'm good at swimming and climbing tree; I'm strong in my own house! Geez, I'm going to roar okay? Grr, Grr, Grr|Sumatran Tiger's introduction}} | ||
The '''Sumatran Tiger''' is a type of [[Friend]] that debuted in the [[List of collaborations#Misaki Park Collaboration|Misaki Park Collaboration]] lasting from July 6th to September 19th in 2017. She has | The '''Sumatran Tiger''' is a type of [[Friend]] that debuted in the [[List of collaborations#Misaki Park Collaboration|Misaki Park Collaboration]] lasting from July 6th to September 19th in 2017. She has been featured in the mobile game [[Kemono Friends 3]]. | ||
|appearance=Sumatran Tiger’s hair is short in length and multicolored. The top of her head and bangs are pale orange colored and marked by dark tiger stripes along the center and bangs. The rest of hair is white with a few dark markings between her human and animal ears. Her animal ears are triangle shaped and almost entirely dark brown colored with smaller white ovals at the base. Her eyes are a dull yellow color. | |appearance=Sumatran Tiger’s hair is short in length and multicolored. The top of her head and bangs are pale orange colored and marked by dark tiger stripes along the center and bangs. The rest of hair is white with a few dark markings between her human and animal ears. Her animal ears are triangle shaped and almost entirely dark brown colored with smaller white ovals at the base. Her eyes are a dull yellow color. | ||
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As legwear, Sumatran Tiger sports pale orange stockings featuring diagonal tiger stripes and white color at the inner thighs and below. The stockings are held up by a garter belt. For footwear, she wears very featureless white shoes with black ribbons and orange color down the center. Her tail is slender and long, with pale orange fur, dark stripes and a dark tipped fuzzy end. | As legwear, Sumatran Tiger sports pale orange stockings featuring diagonal tiger stripes and white color at the inner thighs and below. The stockings are held up by a garter belt. For footwear, she wears very featureless white shoes with black ribbons and orange color down the center. Her tail is slender and long, with pale orange fur, dark stripes and a dark tipped fuzzy end. | ||
|reallife=[[File:Sumatran Tiger Berlin Tierpark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|A Sumatran | |t0=No | ||
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|minor==== [[Kemono Friends Picross]] === | |||
Sumatran Tiger appears in a puzzle of Kemono Friends Picross where the player can obtain a picture of the friend by solving a puzzle. | |||
|reallife=[[File:Sumatran Tiger Berlin Tierpark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|A Sumatran tiger at the Tierpark Berlin zoo in Germany.]] | |||
The Sumatran | The Sumatran tiger is a critically endangered tiger subspecies with a fragmented population distributed across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, being the country's only living tigers. The presence of Sumatran tigers has been verified in 27 areas across the whole of Sumatra, including coastal lowland forests—such as that of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra—and the mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in the island's north.<ref name="A Review">WIBISONO, H.T. and PUSPARINI, W. (2010), Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae): A review of conservation status. Integrative Zoology, 5: 313-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2010.00219.x Accessed on 04 April 2021</ref> While they are recognized as being the smallest of the extant tigers, Sumatran tigers are still relatively large animals, with an average weight range of 100 to 140 kilograms for males; this is comparable to the size of an average jaguar. Southern tiger populations such as the Sumatran tiger have much shorter fur compared to northern tiger populations, as longer and thicker fur is an adaptation for life in cold environments. Stripe patterns also tend to vary between northern and southern populations; the striped coats of Sumatran tigers tend to transition into spots near the ends, and lines of small black specks can be found between normal stripes.<ref name="Maz">Vratislav Mazák, Panthera tigris, Mammalian Species, Issue 152, 8 May 1981, Pages 1–8, https://doi.org/10.2307/3504004. Accessed on 21 March 2021</ref> | ||
In 1929, the British zoologist Reginald Pocock gave the Sumatran | In 1929, the British zoologist Reginald Pocock gave the Sumatran tiger its first valid scientific name, ''Panthera tigris sumatrae''.<ref>[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=726477#null ITIS Standard Report Page: Panthera tigris sumatrae], Integrated Taxonomic Information System, Accessed on 28 March 2021.</ref> The taxonomic classification of tigers has since become controversial among scientists, but in 2017 the IUCN Cat Specialist Group revised tiger taxonomy to combine all extant and extinct Indonesian tigers into a single subspecies, ''Panthera tigris sondaica''.<ref name="Rev Tax">Kitchener A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi N., Abramov A. V., Christiansen P., Driscoll C., Duckworth J. W., Johnson W., Luo S.-J., Meijaard E., O’Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M., Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp. Accessed on 28 March 2021</ref> | ||
[[File:Sumatran tiger in water at Melbourne Zoo.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|right|A Sumatran tiger sitting in a pond at Melbourne Zoo in Australia.]] | |||
Tigers are lone hunters and very successful killers.<ref name="Maz" /> The wild boar and the sambar deer are thought to be the Sumatran tiger's preferred prey;<ref name="Pref Prey">Allen, Max & Sibarani, Marsya & Krofel, Miha. (2021). Predicting preferred prey of Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) via spatiotemporal overlap. Oryx. 55. 197-203. 10.1017/S0030605319000577. Accessed on 28 March 2021</ref> other known prey species include [[Malayan Tapir|Maylayan tapirs]], pigtail macaques, common porcupines, great argus pheasants, and red muntjac.<ref name="Crouching Tigers" /> Tigers tend to mate year round and gestation can last 96 to 111 days. The average litter size for Sumatran tigers is 2.44 cubs, with large litters numbering as many as four cubs.<ref name="Maz" /> | |||
The Sumatran tiger was categorized as being critically endangered with a decreasing population trend by the IUCN Red List in their 2008 assessment of the species,<ref name="IUCN CSG">Linkie, M., Wibisono, H.T., Martyr, D.J. & Sunarto, S. 2008. Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T15966A5334836. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T15966A5334836.en. Accessed on 14 March 2021</ref> and this remains true as of 2026. Habitat destruction, poaching, and loss of prey animals were and are the primary factors of the decline in Sumatran tiger numbers.<ref name="Crouching Tigers">O'Brien, T., Kinnaird, M., & Wibisono, H. (2003). Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape. Animal Conservation, 6, 131-139. Accessed on 28 February 2021.</ref> The rate of deforestation in Sumatra is five times greater than that which is occurring in similar climates across the rest of the world, with the primary goal being to clear land for palm oil plantations. This results in declines of the animals that depend on these forest ecosystems, including the Sumatran tiger's prey species, which can lead the cats to find new territory or starve; this can sometimes lead to direct conflicts with humans as the tigers are forced towards human settlements, often resulting in these tigers being killed.<ref name="A Review" /> They are also illegally poached by those seeking to sell their body parts for use in traditional medicine practices believed to help or cure various ailments, with the effectiveness of these remedies being greatly disputed or denied by medical experts. These factors together put immense strain on the Sumatran tigers as a subspecies, putting them at a high risk of extinction should protections not increase. | |||
|trivia=*Like other tiger species, Sumatran tigers enjoy being in and around water. They are very skilled swimmers, being capable of crossing rivers as wide as 4 miles.<ref name="Maz" /> | |||
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Latest revision as of 10:59, 12 May 2026
Sumatran Tiger
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| スマトラトラ | |||
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| Romaji | Sumatoratora
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| Debut | Kemono Friends 3 | ||
| Animal Data | |||
| Scientific Name | Panthera tigris sondaica
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| Distribution | Sumatra island in western Indonesia
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| Diet | Carnivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | Roughly 15 years in the wild, around 20 in captivity
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| Read More | Sumatran tiger
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| Conservation | |||
| Sumatran Tiger | KF3 | Gallery |
“I'm Sumatran Tiger! Eh? It's difficult to pronounce? Please properly say it okay? I'm being called "The little one" by Bengal-chan and Siberian-chan; I wonder if that's true? I'm good at swimming and climbing tree; I'm strong in my own house! Geez, I'm going to roar okay? Grr, Grr, Grr”
—Sumatran Tiger's introduction
The Sumatran Tiger is a type of Friend that debuted in the Misaki Park Collaboration lasting from July 6th to September 19th in 2017. She has been featured in the mobile game Kemono Friends 3.
Appearance
Sumatran Tiger’s hair is short in length and multicolored. The top of her head and bangs are pale orange colored and marked by dark tiger stripes along the center and bangs. The rest of hair is white with a few dark markings between her human and animal ears. Her animal ears are triangle shaped and almost entirely dark brown colored with smaller white ovals at the base. Her eyes are a dull yellow color.
She wears a short sleeved dress shirt with an unbuttoned collar and a pale red tie. The shirt is white on the collar and sleeves. At the bust and below it is a pale orange color with dark, crest shaped tiger stripes along the front length of the shirt. Covering her hands and arms, she wears pale orange long sleeved gloves which feature a few dark stripes and white color at the back. Below the shirt, she wears a pale red pleated skirt with a fuzzy white trim.
As legwear, Sumatran Tiger sports pale orange stockings featuring diagonal tiger stripes and white color at the inner thighs and below. The stockings are held up by a garter belt. For footwear, she wears very featureless white shoes with black ribbons and orange color down the center. Her tail is slender and long, with pale orange fur, dark stripes and a dark tipped fuzzy end.
Series Appearances
| Media | Role | |
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| 2018 | Kemono Friends Picross | Appears on a puzzle. |
| 2019 | Kemono Friends 3 | ↪ Minor character, playable. |
| 2019 | Kemono Friends 3: Planet Tours | ↪ Photo illustration |
Minor Appearances
Kemono Friends Picross
Sumatran Tiger appears in a puzzle of Kemono Friends Picross where the player can obtain a picture of the friend by solving a puzzle.
In Real Life
The Sumatran tiger is a critically endangered tiger subspecies with a fragmented population distributed across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, being the country's only living tigers. The presence of Sumatran tigers has been verified in 27 areas across the whole of Sumatra, including coastal lowland forests—such as that of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra—and the mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in the island's north.[1] While they are recognized as being the smallest of the extant tigers, Sumatran tigers are still relatively large animals, with an average weight range of 100 to 140 kilograms for males; this is comparable to the size of an average jaguar. Southern tiger populations such as the Sumatran tiger have much shorter fur compared to northern tiger populations, as longer and thicker fur is an adaptation for life in cold environments. Stripe patterns also tend to vary between northern and southern populations; the striped coats of Sumatran tigers tend to transition into spots near the ends, and lines of small black specks can be found between normal stripes.[2]
In 1929, the British zoologist Reginald Pocock gave the Sumatran tiger its first valid scientific name, Panthera tigris sumatrae.[3] The taxonomic classification of tigers has since become controversial among scientists, but in 2017 the IUCN Cat Specialist Group revised tiger taxonomy to combine all extant and extinct Indonesian tigers into a single subspecies, Panthera tigris sondaica.[4]
Tigers are lone hunters and very successful killers.[2] The wild boar and the sambar deer are thought to be the Sumatran tiger's preferred prey;[5] other known prey species include Maylayan tapirs, pigtail macaques, common porcupines, great argus pheasants, and red muntjac.[6] Tigers tend to mate year round and gestation can last 96 to 111 days. The average litter size for Sumatran tigers is 2.44 cubs, with large litters numbering as many as four cubs.[2]
The Sumatran tiger was categorized as being critically endangered with a decreasing population trend by the IUCN Red List in their 2008 assessment of the species,[7] and this remains true as of 2026. Habitat destruction, poaching, and loss of prey animals were and are the primary factors of the decline in Sumatran tiger numbers.[6] The rate of deforestation in Sumatra is five times greater than that which is occurring in similar climates across the rest of the world, with the primary goal being to clear land for palm oil plantations. This results in declines of the animals that depend on these forest ecosystems, including the Sumatran tiger's prey species, which can lead the cats to find new territory or starve; this can sometimes lead to direct conflicts with humans as the tigers are forced towards human settlements, often resulting in these tigers being killed.[1] They are also illegally poached by those seeking to sell their body parts for use in traditional medicine practices believed to help or cure various ailments, with the effectiveness of these remedies being greatly disputed or denied by medical experts. These factors together put immense strain on the Sumatran tigers as a subspecies, putting them at a high risk of extinction should protections not increase.
Trivia
- Like other tiger species, Sumatran tigers enjoy being in and around water. They are very skilled swimmers, being capable of crossing rivers as wide as 4 miles.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WIBISONO, H.T. and PUSPARINI, W. (2010), Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae): A review of conservation status. Integrative Zoology, 5: 313-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2010.00219.x Accessed on 04 April 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Vratislav Mazák, Panthera tigris, Mammalian Species, Issue 152, 8 May 1981, Pages 1–8, https://doi.org/10.2307/3504004. Accessed on 21 March 2021
- ↑ ITIS Standard Report Page: Panthera tigris sumatrae, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, Accessed on 28 March 2021.
- ↑ Kitchener A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi N., Abramov A. V., Christiansen P., Driscoll C., Duckworth J. W., Johnson W., Luo S.-J., Meijaard E., O’Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M., Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp. Accessed on 28 March 2021
- ↑ Allen, Max & Sibarani, Marsya & Krofel, Miha. (2021). Predicting preferred prey of Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) via spatiotemporal overlap. Oryx. 55. 197-203. 10.1017/S0030605319000577. Accessed on 28 March 2021
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 O'Brien, T., Kinnaird, M., & Wibisono, H. (2003). Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape. Animal Conservation, 6, 131-139. Accessed on 28 February 2021.
- ↑ Linkie, M., Wibisono, H.T., Martyr, D.J. & Sunarto, S. 2008. Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T15966A5334836. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T15966A5334836.en. Accessed on 14 March 2021