The biggest and most formidable of the big cats is the tiger. Adult Amur tigers reach a length of three and a half meters. And the tiger weighs more than three hundred kilograms. But these are the largest animals. Southern, Bengal tigers are much smaller. They weigh no more than 225 kilograms. It is generally believed that the homeland of the tigers is Southeast Asia, from where they settled more than 10 thousand years ago to the north, reaching the Ussuri region and the Amur region.
