The Amur leopard is the rarest big cat in the world: fewer than about a hundred survive in the wild, in the temperate forests of the Russian Far East and northeast China. Its coat is unique among leopards: its rosettes are bigger, more spread out and paler than in other subspecies, making a golden cream coat in winter. It is built for the Siberian cold and can cope with temperatures of -30 °C. It lives alone and hunts at night, and it can carry prey twice as heavy as itself to the top of a tree. Deforestation, forest fires and poaching for its fur and bones have shrunk its range by 90% over the last century.