- 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 the Palearctic realm and is found within three ecosystems: the Ussurian broadleaf and mixed forests, the Manchurian mixed forests, and the Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga.