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Easy Tiger!

It's tiring work for this Siberian tiger cub born at the Hengdaohezi Breeding Centre for Felidae in Harbin of Heilongjiang Province, China.
The centre, established in 1986, is the world's biggest captive breeding base for Siberian tigers.
More than 800 Siberian tigers have been raised there.
The wild Siberian tiger lives only in northeast China, the far east area of Russia and North Korea.
There are approximately 450 of the tigers in the world, around 20 of those are in China.
Like all other cats, the Siberian Tiger is a carnivorous predator; an adept hunter, it preys mainly on wild boar and red deer.
They are also known to hunt dangerous animals like adult brown bears.
The Siberian Tiger is not very difficult to breed in captivity, but the possibility of releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild is small.
Conservation efforts that secure the wild population are therefore still important.
If a captive bred Siberian Tiger were to be released into the wild, it would lack the necessary hunting skills and starve to death.
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