Corbetti is a smaller, darker, and less boldly striped tiger than the Bengal subspecies found in India. Males can reach a length of 9 feet and may obtain weights in excess of 400 pounds. Female Indochinese Tigers like other female tiger subspecies, are smaller then their male counterparts. Females achieve a head to tail length of eight feet and weigh approximately 250 pounds.
The rare Indochinese tiger is widely dispersed throughout six countries – Thailand, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Although extensive habitat is available in some places, rapid development is fragmenting habitats and forcing tigers into scattered, small refuges. Poaching is also a threat.
The Indochinese tiger is mostly found in lowland and highland tropical deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests in Indochina.
Today, the subspecies is confined to remote forests in hilly to mountainous terrain mostly along the borders of their range states. Most are found in Thailand, but they also live in eastern Myanmar, southern China, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam.
The Indochinese tiger is thought to number around 300 individuals.
However this number is an estimate: due to restricted access to the border areas where the Indochinese tiger lives, relatively little is known about their population status.
Most individuals (around 100) live in Thailand, with no more than 30 individuals per country in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR. The population in Myanmar is unknown.
The key threats to Indochinese tigers are habitat fragmentation and direct poaching of both the tiger and its prey.
According to the China National news, the last Indochinese tiger in China has been killed in its nature sanctuary, dismembered and eaten sometime during December 2009. The Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti), also known as also known as Corbetts tiger live in remote forests in hilly to mountainous terrain, much of which lies along the borders between countries.
The World Wildlife fund reports their population in the wild to be at about 300, with the majority of these in Thailand on small scattered refuges.
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http://www.examiner.com/green-living-in-national/last-indochina-tiger-killed-and-eaten-includes-tiger-video-and-slideshow
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