Rare Maltese Blue Tiger. The blue tiger or maltese tiger came to international attention in 1910 when a missionary in the fujian province of china noticed what he thought was a man in a blue suit. The south china tiger was a panthera tigris tigris population in southern china 2 this population was native to fujian guangdong hunan and jiangxi provinces.
It has been listed as critically endangered on the iucn red list since 1996 and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the late 1980s 1 in. The maltese tiger or blue tiger is a suspected coloration morph of a tiger reported mostly from the fujian province of china. Critically endangered maltese tigers have been reported as a subspecies of the south chinese tiger.
Most of the maltese tigers reported have been of the south chinese subspecies.
Currently there is no blue tigers in private collection or zoos. That said having a cat in your home is very. One blue tiger was born in an oklahoma zoo in the 1960s. The complex field of feline genetics is inclusive of all species of cat big and small.
