Chinese tiger

I seam to remember the owner telling me this was A Chinese tiger a species that has the largest head of any tiger it was a gift from a titled lady! He asked a young boy to run along the side of the fence to arouse some hunting instinct , by now the lad had finished running and the tiger had given up.

It may well be labelled Chinese. I am willing to state that if that's genuine amoyensis then I have Thylacines at the bottom of my garden.

Maybe siberian tiger is more appropriate

There are two cats here that were labelled as 'Chinese-blooded' when I was there. My understanding is that they are believed to be cross-bred Amur x South China but very much not on even terms - one-eighth South China perhaps? I seem to recall they are siblings.

I can only go on what the late owner told me, but that was over 16 years ago now.

dean said:

I can only go on what the late owner told me, but that was over 16 years ago now.

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Sixteen years ago would have been roughly the same time as my last visit to the Isle of Wight Zoo. On that occasion, I was so surprised to see a tiger labelled as Chinese that I queried it with the owner. He then admitted that, despite the label, it wasn’t pure-bred but told me that it did have some South China tiger blood in its ancestry.

Maguari said:

There are two cats here that were labelled as 'Chinese-blooded' when I was there. My understanding is that they are believed to be cross-bred Amur x South China but very much not on even terms - one-eighth South China perhaps? I seem to recall they are siblings.

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Siblings Czar and Raisa (now both dead, in about 2009) were Amur x South Chinese (indeed 1/8 Chinese I think). They originated in Italy.

Their remains are now with the National Museum of Scotland, I believe.

Panthera Puss said:

Siblings Czar and Raisa (now both dead, in about 2009) were Amur x South Chinese (indeed 1/8 Chinese I think). They originated in Italy.

Their remains are now with the National Museum of Scotland, I believe.

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Thanks for that - I hadn't realised they'd both died.

National Museum of Scotland seems to be building up quite the collection of ex-zoo animals!

When I was there in 1998, the late Jack Corney gave a rather enthusiastic talk on these tigers and made a big thing about them having "Chinese blood"
but whether he was trying to convince us, or himself, I am not too sure!!