Sumatran Tiger
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| Romaji | Sumatoratora
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| Scientific Name | Panthera tigris sumatrae
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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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| Sumatran Tiger | Festival | 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 games Kemono Friends Festival and 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
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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 fragmented population of critically endangered tigers distributed across the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is the smallest of all living tigers and the last surviving tiger species living in Indonesia.
In 1929, the British zoologist Reginald Pocock gave the Sumatran Tiger its first valid scientific name, Panthera tigris sumatrae.[1] 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 the Indonesian tigers into a single subspecies, Panthera tigris sondaica.[2]
As tigers are the largest felids of the cat family, even their smallest living member, the Sumatran Tiger is still big at an average weight range of 100 to 140 kilograms for males. This is comparable to the size of a normal Jaguar. Southern tigers like the Sumatran Tiger have much shorter fur length compared to northern tigers. The stripe patterns of Sumatran Tigers and other southern species of tiger tend to transition into spots near the ends and lines of small black specks can be found between normal stripes.[3]
Tigers are lone hunters and very successful killers.[3] Some prey animals of the Sumatran Tiger include Maylayan tapirs, pigtail macaques, European wild boars, common porcupines, great argus pheasants, red muntjac, and Sambar deer.[4] The wild boar and the sambar deer are thought to be this tiger’s preferred prey.[5] Tigers tend to mate year round and gestation can last 96 to 111 days. A litter can number up to four cubs, but the average litter size for Sumatran Tigers is 2.44 cubs.[3]
The presence of Sumatran Tigers has been verified in 27 areas across the whole of Sumatra. These areas include 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 northern Sumatra.[6] Like other tiger species, Sumatran Tigers enjoy water and are very skilled swimmers, easily able to cross rivers as wide as 3 to 4 miles.[3]
The Sumatran Tiger was categorized as critically endangered with a decreasing population trend by the IUCN Red List in their 2008 assessment of the species.[7] Habitat destruction, poaching, and loss of prey animals are the primary factors of the decline in Sumatran Tiger numbers.[4] The rate of deforestation in Sumatra is happening at five times the rate of deforestation in similar climates in the rest of the world and the land is primarily being cleared for palm oil plantations. Sumatran Tigers are illegally hunted to sell their body parts for a use in pseudoscientific traditional medicine. The tigers are also killed in conflicts with humans due to their shrinking habitat forcing them to live near human settlements.[6] The Sumatran Tiger is in danger of becoming extinct in the near future if conservation efforts fail to protect these animals from the threats they face.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ 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 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
- ↑ 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