Q 01/05

Which of these populations is often considered the largest of all tigers?

A) Indochinese tiger

B) South China tiger

C) Sumatran tiger

D) Siberian tiger

Answer · why

D) Siberian tiger

Siberian tiger is the traditional answer, and its shaggy winter coat, the longest of any tiger's, adds to the bulk, yet wild males weighed in recent d...

Q 02/05

Which of these tigers is thought to have gone extinct by the 1980s?

A) Javan tiger

B) Sumatran tiger

C) Bengal tiger

D) Malayan tiger

Answer · why

A) Javan tiger

Javan tiger: as farms spread across crowded Java it retreated to remote upland forest, the last sightings came from Meru Betiri in 1976, and it was de...

Q 03/05

In 2022, what was the estimated worldwide wild tiger population?

A) 1,500-2,000

B) 3,700-5,600

C) 10,000-12,000

D) 25,000-30,000

Answer · why

B) 3,700-5,600

The IUCN's 2022 assessment estimated 3,726 to 5,578 wild tigers, roughly 3,700-5,600, with India holding more than half; a century earlier the species...

Q 04/05

Wild tigers are native to which single continent?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) South America

D) Australia

Answer · why

B) Asia

Asia: no tiger has ever lived wild in Africa, where lions and leopards are the big cats; the tiger's range once ran from the Caspian Sea to Russia's P...

Q 05/05

Researchers count wild tigers, each with a one-of-a-kind coat pattern, mainly using which tool?

A) Camera traps

B) Radio collars

C) Satellite images

D) Paw-print casts

Answer · why

A) Camera traps

Camera traps photograph passing tigers and each flank is matched like a fingerprint; India keeps a national photo library of its cats, which also help...