How to Use Amur tiger in a Sentence

Amur tiger

noun
  • Brown bears in that part of the world do weigh a bit more than Amur tigers.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Cila, an Amur tiger and one of the senior big cats at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, has died.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In the meantime, zoo officials are asking the public to help vote on possible names of the cubs. Options for the Siberian tigers, which are also known as Amur tigers, were picked by the staff who takes care of them.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Amur tiger was part of a subspecies that is seriously endangered.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Somewhere right now in the empty wilds of far-east Russia, two Amur tigers are parenting their young cubs.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The Louisville Zoo is welcoming two female lions to the zoo and one female Amur tiger.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2020
  • This area, in present-day Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces, was also prime Amur tiger habitat.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Zoya, an Amur tiger, was born at the Philadelphia Zoo, but her mother didn't have the maternal instincts to care for her.
    — Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022
  • Residents include the Amur tiger, Asian elephant, and black rhinoceros.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2024
  • The Siberian Tiger Project and its allies were at the center of the Amur tiger conservation renaissance.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • All donations received through the tiger cub naming contest are going towards the care and protection of Amur tigers, both at the Toledo Zoo and globally.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Ever since settlers, both Russian and Chinese, filtered into Amur tiger forests in the middle of the nineteenth century, the fate of these cats has been linked to human attitudes.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This stunning shot of a female Amur tiger is a result of Gorshkov’s planning and patience— there are very few of these animals left in the wild, as over the past century they were hunted nearly to extinction.
    — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In 2003 a young Amur tiger, seeming disoriented, wandered into a Russian village on the Chinese border.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In 2021, a female Amur tiger named Savelii died due to complications from an artificial insemination procedure.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023

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