Malayan Tiger Panthera tigris tigris/jacksoni/malayensis

The critically endangered Malayan (also Malaysian) Tiger was described as a subspecies of tiger only in 2004. It is native to fragmented rainforests of the Malaysian Peninsula and is one of the rarest animals on earth with less than 200 estimated in the wild.

It's population is facing extinction due to continued forest clearance and commercial poaching, the latter for meat and body parts.

Formerly P. t. jacksoni, in 2017, all tiger subspecies were reclassified and all mainland populations of Asian tigers were grouped into P. t. tigris.

The male, left/centre, is larger and has more facial hair (sideburns) than the female, right.