In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

Siberia doesn't seem to be an obvious home for tigers – the jungles of South and Southeast Asia, perhaps, but not the forests and frigid winters of Asia's north. And yet the wilderness of Russia's Far East is home to a subspecies of this elegant animal. Subject to poaching and competition from humans, there are now only hundreds of the Amur tiger, or Panthera tigris altaica, left, but they still roam Primorsky Krai, with some spilling over into neighboring China and Korea.