Spotted tiger (SciiFii)

The spotted tiger (Panthera tigris tendere), also known as the Philippine tiger, is a subspecies of tiger that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout the Philippines archipelago to help boost biodiversity. The spotted tiger is one of the smallest subspecies of tiger, being comparable in size to the Bali tiger or having a length between 190-220 centimeters (75 to 91 inches) long from head to end of tail and weighing around 65 and 100 kilograms (143 to 220 lbs). As its name suggests, the spotted tiger is unique among tigers, due to the fact that it has a distinctively marked coat featuring pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to rosettes on the sides, similarly to jaguars, as opposed to stripes, although it has a few stripes around its legs. Like jaguars and leopards, a melanistic black coat appears in some individuals. The spotted tiger's powerful bite allows it to pierce the carapaces of turtles and tortoises, and to employ an unusual killing method among pantherine cats: it bites directly through the skull of mammalian prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain. Filling the similar ecological niche to leopards and jaguars elsewhere, it is adept at swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush apex predator. As a keystone species, it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and in regulating prey populations. The conservation status of the spotted tiger is Vulnerable due to habitat loss and poaching, however, thanks to the conservationists, the spotted tiger is a protected species.