WELCOME TO THE SECOND INTERNET LAND SAFARI

To see the next of these few animals, and it is a rarer one, we had never seen before, and even more amazing one, click here, or on the picture of the Siberian Tiger.

Pictures of unusual and famous animals, in a great tour round the world, some of which, many of us had never seen before.

First Picture, not of the rarer creatures none of us had seen before, a Siberian Tiger.

The next one is a rarer one.

This is the second animal tour we have, and we also have a tour of sea life.

Russian conservation efforts have led to a revival of this subspecies, and the number of individuals in the Primorsky region of Russia has risen from 450 to 500 in the past decade, indicating positive growth. (Written December 2006)

Like all other cats, the Amur Tiger is a carnivorous predator; an adept hunter, it preys primarily on wild boar, roe deer, sika deer and goral, but will also take smaller prey like lagomorphs (hares, rabbits, and pikas) and fish, including salmon. Unlike the Bengal Tiger, the Amur Tiger rarely attacks humans. It has sometimes even been known to kill and eat Asiatic black bears and even brown bears. It gets white and black in Winter for camouflage.

The largest captive Amur tiger was 3.7 metres (12 ft) long and weighed over 423 kilograms (932 lb),

In the wild, the male Amur Tiger can weigh as much as 318 kilograms (700 lb), although in past years, scientists believed that these cats could weigh up to 350 kilograms (800 lb), a supposition based largely on the estimates of hunters. On average, a tigress weighs about 160 kilograms (352 lb), and a male weighs about 225 kilograms (496 lb).