Wild Siberian tiger gives birth to record FIVE cubs

Five Siberian tiger cubs have one very proud mum - she's the first ever tiger known to have given birth to quintuplets in the wild in China.

The family have been spotted in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, which is one of China's first five national parks and covers over 14,000 square kilometres - that's around the same size as Northern Ireland!

It's very rare for Siberian tigers to give birth to five healthy cubs, so it's a big success story for the park, who say it's likely that mum had the cubs back in June.

Lots of careful conservation work here has meant that tiger and leopard populations have seen a boost.

Read on to find out five cool facts about Siberian tigers!

The Siberian tiger, also known as the Amur tiger, is thought by scientists to be the world's biggest tiger species.

They can grow to over 3m in length and can weigh over 300kg.

Siberian tigers are listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, which shows how threatened different animals are.

This means the news of five new wild Siberian tiger cubs is a win for the species.

Living up to their name, Siberian tigers live in very cold places.

They mostly live in the cold forests of eastern Russia, but some - like the newest cubs on the block - call the northeast of China and some parts of North Korea home.

Solitary means spending most of your time on your own, and Siberian tigers love to roam alone, and can command territories of a large size.

They often travel many miles to hunt prey like elk and wild boar.

When Siberian tiger cubs are born, they stay with their mum for up to three years, before heading off on their own to mark out their territory.

So these new quintuplet cubs will have years of care with their family to come.