• It lives in the Far East where winters reach −40 °C; wide paws act as snowshoes.

The Korean tiger, also known as the Manchurian tiger, Siberian tiger, Ussurian tiger, or amur tiger, inhabits land, highlands and tundra, ground forests, forests, and hills, at elevations up to 1.5 kilometers; the species occupies taiga biomes with cold winters and many coniferous trees such as fir, pine, and temperate mixed forests where summers are warm and contain many oaks, birches, and maples. The climate features little precipitation in winter, but more in summer, with winters being dry and snowy, almost without rain but with much snow, and summers being cool with abundant rainfall; the seasons also bring snow in winter and comfortable summers with temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius.