What is the heaviest living carnivorous cat in the world? Is it a Siberian tiger?

Siberian tiger: also known as the Siberian tiger, tiger is one of the subspecies. It is the largest carnivorous cat in the world, with a male body length of about 2.8 meters, a tail length of about 1 meter, and a maximum weight of more than 350 kilograms.

Wild Siberian tiger body color summer hair brown yellow, winter hair pale yellow. The back and sides have multiple rows of narrow black stripes, usually two close to a willow leaf. The head is large and round, and several black stripes on the forehead are often colluded in the middle, which is very similar to the word "king", so it has the reputation of "king of the jungle".

Siberian tigers inhabit forests, shrubs and weeds. Living alone, no settlement, with territorial behavior, the range of activities can reach more than 100 square kilometers. Nocturnal, sensitive, fierce, quick to move, good at swimming, good at climbing trees, rarely attack humans. Siberian tiger preys mainly on deer, sheep, wild boar and other large and medium-sized mammals, but also eat small mammals and birds. Predation is a sneak attack. The gestation period is 103 to 105 days, two to four pups are born per litter, and the birth occurs once every two to three years. The wild life span is 15 to 17 years, up to 20 years, and the life span in captivity is 20-25 years.

It is distributed in northeast Asia, namely Siberia, Korea Peninsula and Northeast China. Due to habitat destruction and poaching, as of early 2015, there were only 500 Siberian tigers left in the wild in the world.

Attachment: Siberia is a vast area of North Asia in The Russian Federation, starting from the Ural Mountains in the west, ending in the Pacific Ocean in the east, bordering the Arctic Ocean in the north, reaching the mountains in the central and northern parts of Kazakhstan in the southwest, and bordering China, Mongolia and Korea in the south. It covers an area of 12.76 million square kilometers. Except for the southwest end, it is all in Russia. Some people also regard the watershed between the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean system as its eastern boundary.

The name "Siberia" may come from the ancient Turkic language, meaning "quiet land"; it is also said to be "Xianbei Liya", derived from the Xianbei people; on the ancient map of China, Siberia is called "Luo Wilderness"; It is also said that the name "Siberia" comes from the Mongolian word "West Boer", meaning "mud, muddy place". In ancient times, Siberia was a muddy place. Mongolian ancestors living here took the name for this place according to the terrain. When the Russians came, they transliterated it as "Siberia".