How to Use Amur tiger in a Sentence

Amur tiger

noun
  • 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
  • There’s an Amur tiger named Metis who arrived in April.
    Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • Nearly 100 Amur tigers live in human care in both the U.S. and Canada.
    Simrin Singh, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Louisville Zoo is welcoming two female lions to the zoo and one female Amur tiger.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2020
  • 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
  • The Amur tiger was part of a subspecies that is seriously endangered.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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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