NO FLOWERS HERE

It's Flower Friday but there's no flowers here.....AAMOF, we having another Spring blizzard tomorrow with up to 10 inches (25.2cm) of heavy, wet snow driven by 35mph (56+kph) winds.  It will be a while before there's any flowers to photograph here......so tigers it is!
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This is a Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), a.k.a. Amur Tiger.  It is native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and, possibly, North Korea. This one lives in the zoo in Milwaukee.  The wild population is endangered but stable at 350-400 individuals approximately 95% of which live in Russia.
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They have a bite force of 1000lb/in2 (70.3kg/cm2)...this enables them to kill the largest of game with just a bite.  

WIKI:  Prey species of the tiger include ungulates such as Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus), Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus), long-tailed goral (Naemorhedus caudatus), moose (Alces alces), Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus) and sika deer (Cervus nippon), wild boar (Sus scrofa), and even sometimes small size Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bears (Ursus arctos). Siberian tigers also take smaller prey like hares, rabbits, pikas and even salmon.[32][36] Scat was collected along the international border between Russia and China between November 2014 and April 2015; 115 scat samples of nine tigers contained foremost remains of wild boar, sika deer and roe deer.[46]
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WIKI: The Siberian tiger is often considered to be the largest tiger.[31] A wild male, killed in Manchuria by the Sungari River in 1943, reportedly measured 350 cm (140 in) "over the curves", with a tail length of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in). It weighed about 300 kg (660 lb). Dubious sources mention weights of 318 and 384 kg (701 and 847 lb) and even 408 kg (899 lb).[32]
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Best viewed in Large.