Tiger is the largest and terrible representative of a feline family. The legends, its cruelty and pressure, even inferior are inferior to Lyuda Neva Predator. Fluids of wild, non-controlled force emanating from the large and magnificent body of the tiger, cause unmotivated concern at the inhabitants and panic fear Long before the appearance of the beast within visibility. The same strengths of emotion are experiencing a person who is close to the approaching predator.
Myths and legends
In the mythology of many nations of the world, Tiger is the owner of the forest, the king of animals, the owner of the magical qualities and powerful energy. IN ancient China The predator was considered a thunderstorm of demons and a defender from diseases, in Korea he was known as the spirit of caves and mountains.
The Nivhi, living in Japan and Russia, attributed the beast to the special breed of "people - tigers". When meeting it, it was necessary to bow and say a welcoming speech, but it was categorically prohibited to injure or kill the tiger. Many Indian tribes believed and consider the animal by their ancestor standing at the origins of the genus.
"Loseer" called the Tiger of the Zabaikalian hunters and went around the paths trotted by them. If accidentally hammered on the trail going forward the beast, they tried not to go with him, but to move their back in the opposite direction, while doing frequent bows. So, in their opinion, it was possible to avoid tigrin wrath and inevitable trouble. Kyrgyz shamans in the process of ritual actions are treated for help to kind white tigra.
In Chinese Buddhism, the beast personifies anger. For Indians, it is a symbol of military valve. According to the Japanese tradition, a predator in a bamboo grove symbolizes human evil.
In Eastern medicine, the Tiger was considered as a source of valuable material for the manufacture of medicinal drugs. To recover from infertility, women were recommended to use the predator meat in food or jump through its skin. Chinese healers were made from different parts of the body of animal antipyretic agents and aphrodisiacs.
Despite all sorts of prohibitions, products from the tiger bodies are in demand and sold on illegal markets.
Caution! Fite!
Animal clashes with an unarmed person ends with bloodshed and dramatic finals. Special danger represent tigers-cannibals. Usually, these are patients or old individuals who are not able to attack a stronger opponent. They are purposefully hunting for people, arrange ambushes near rural roads, always attack from the back. Can become cannibals and quite healthy individuals. Beasts quickly get used to taste human meat And no longer able to deny himself in this pleasure.
To prevent tiger attack, residents dangerous areas Resort to different tricks and tricks. One of these tricks - a face mask with big eyes, I hope on the back. The "look" of the mask scares the predator and he does not risk attacking, but it is retracted back to the jungle.
Many sad well-known facts about tigers are once again reminded of the bloody and insidious essence of the predator. Some of these evidence as, for example, serial killings People with Tigritis - Nainital (1925 - 1930) are distinguished in the Indian District (1925 - 1930). According to confirmed data, 64 people managed to kill 64 people.
The Champavat Tigress is considered the bloodthirsty predator of the XX century. According to researchers in her account, 436 murders, of which 200 people were killed in Nepal and 236 in the Kuman region. Animal hunted people for several years. With a dangerous predator, even the Nepalese army could not cope - she always managed to leave the persecution. Point in this tragic history set a famous hunter for predators - cannibals Jim Corbett. He was covered by a guy beast in 1911.
Mango forests of Sundraban, Uttar - Pradesh in India and now represent a deadly danger to a person. According to local scientists, every fourth tiger living in these regions is a potential cannibal.
Features of hunting
For many centuries, the tiger was welcome trophy. Hunting for him, regardless of the habitat, was massive, it became more like entertainment and a sporting joy than the way to protect against the attack of a predator.
In the ancient Korea, the hunters for the beast were revered in every way and occupied a very high status in society. Their clothes differed from the clothes of the tribesmen, consisted of their blue turban, a jacket of the same color and an unusual necklace. In the daily diet of the beasts, the meat of the dead animal necessarily.
Hunting on tigers in Central Asia Engaged great conquer Alexander the Great. For her, it used the darts sharpened by a special way.
Entertained by this dangerous and cruel occupation of English colonizers. As a penger, they used local residents. They themselves moved on elephants or walked for a victim. The skins of the dead animals became carpets or stuffed in the houses of the English aristocracy, meat - a delicacy dish during the feasts.
History of type
An animal since 1929 refers to the genus Panthera (Panther). Latin name species - Panthera Tigris.where "Tigris" translated into Russian means fast or acute. The first information about the predator can be found in the works of the physician and the naturalist Karl Linnei, also the study of this species was engaged in the zoologist George Robert Gray, contributed to scientific research Naturalist Nikolai Severstech.
Fossil remains of wild tigers belonging to the Pleistocene period were found on the island of Java, in North China, Sumatra, Siberia, India. According to molecular genetic studies, the predator is directly related to the genus Panthera and separated from the overall ancestral branch more than two million years ago.
In the same time saber-toothed tigerDespite its name, according to the results of DNA, there has nothing to do with the living tige.
Distribution and status of the population
Previously, the vital space of the predator captured extensive territories: from Indonesia to Transcaucasia and Central Asia, from the Far East to Iran. At the beginning of XX on Earth, up to 100 thousand animals lived, 40 thousand of which lived in India.
The increasing invasion of civilization in the virgin nature and poaching hunt contributed to a catastrophic reduction in the form. Now the habitat of the tiger is limited by several regions of Asia, divided into separate populations, whose total number does not exceed 5 thousand.
At the Osts of Bali and Java, in Transcaucasia and Central Asia, the animals disappeared in the second half of the last century. In Korea and Manchuria have been preserved from 20 to 30 individuals, Far East It dwells up to 550 predators, there are no more than 500 pieces on Sumatra. Most of the tigers remained in Indochier and India - about 3.5 thousand.
Security events
Predator is under international Guard And listed in the Red Book. Hunt for him is prohibited. Specialized protected areas are created to preserve the type and maintenance of the population number.
In the Far East, there are several zones protected by the state - Sikhote-Alinsky, Lazovsky and Ussuri National Parks, the reserve Cedar Pad. For observations of tigers, scientists most often use photo gallets, a tropping method, GPS tracking, radioscoin.
Appearance
Cat Tiger - massive outwardly, but incredibly flexible and clever animal.
- Its weight exceeds all imaginable limits and is the most impressive among the representatives of the cat family. The average largest tiger weighs 190 - 250 kg. A large part can achieve body weight up to 300 - 320 kg.
- An adult animal has a length without taking the tail of about three meters, height in the withers to 1.2 meters.
- The front paws are more powerful and high than the rear. The feet are very broad, claws of the retractable. On the back of the back only four fingers, the front paw has five fingers.
- The massive, rounded shape of the head of the tiger is planted on a wide, powerful neck. The muzzle on both sides is decorated with barenbards.
- Eyes yellow color With round pupils.
- Lob convex.
- The nose is large, the bridge is wide.
- The jaw is strong, the length of the canine is up to 8 cm.
- The ears are small, without brushes.
Thanks to its colors, in life and in the photo, the tiger looks very colorful. Southern subspecies have a short, rare and fairly rigid woolen cover. Northern individuals have a fluffy skin with a long, medium rigidity Schörfe. A striped tiger can have a rust-brown or rusty-red main color. The throat, belly and paws in the inside of white-gray. Light spots are on the muzzle and ears.
Stripes on wool are unique among each individual. Such bands have predator up to 100 pieces. The color palette includes all shades of brown and black colors depends on the subspecies. In the neck and on the torso, they are located in the transverse direction, reach the belly, where they end with sharp, like a bayonet, ends.
At the front half of the body, the strip is rarely located, their frequency increases to the beginning of the tail. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe pelvis, the bands are descended to half the honey. The tiger's tail has up to ten transverse strips and a black spot at the very end.
Options Color
- White Tiger is a good result of a gene mutation, occurring once every 10 thousand individuals. In life and photo white Tiger It looks amazingly beautiful - sparkling in the sun is absolutely white fur, heavenly purity blue eyes, clearly battered black and brown stripes. The first such Tigrian was selected by the Mother's huts in 1951. Since then, scientists are engaged in their breeding in the conditions of captivity, while all the specials are the descendants of the found animal. Tigers with an unusual color well multiply and constantly replenish the composition of their mini-population.
- Golden Tiger is obliged to its color to the recessive gene responsible for unusual color Wool. The history of the appearance of an animal is rooted at the beginning of the 20th century, it was then that the first animal was discovered with such a color. At that time, many theories were put forward on this expense, but none of them found its confirmation. The explanation of this phenomenon was found after a genetic study, as a result of which a recessive gene was found. In the zoos of the world there are 30 individuals with Golden Color, and almost all of them are the result of crossing adult individuals with their offspring.
- In the population there are absolutely black tigers and animals with a bluish gray color.
Habitat and lifestyle
Landscapes where these animals live are very diverse. The predator is well adapted to any climate and relief, whether mangroves or bamboo thickets, tropical forests, naked rocks, harsh siberian Taiga Or dry savanna with scarce vegetation. It occurs at altitudes to 3 thousand meters.
Animal Tiger - single by nature. The day is sleeping in the lair, closer to the evening goes to search for production. Camping is sometimes tightened until the morning.
At the age of tigers, deftly and quickly climbs on the trees, the adult predator in the trees does not climb - does not allow weight. Loves and knows how to swim, it is not afraid of strong frosts, it is well tolerate hot weather. Usually tiger silent. Makes deaf lever sounds only in the marriage, at the moment of rage and when attacks the sacrifice.
Everywhere, where the tiger dwells, the personal territory is saturated with an individual smell. It richly irrigates the urine rock, shrubs, tree trunks. Urinary labels leaves on vertical surfaces. To remind itself even more, rubs back about the trees, scratching a bark, blows snow or land.
The dimensions of hunting grounds depend on the region of habitat, the number of available food and gender. Males occupy large territories - from 60 to 100 km 2. In search of mining they overcome from 9 to 41 km per day. Females are limited to more modest borders, the area of \u200b\u200btheir personal territory does not exceed 20 km 2. Plots of the male and several females can intersect with each other. Animals are always moving along the same paths.
In relation to other males, it aggressively behaves, at the sight of them becomes in a threatening position and publishes no less threatening sounds. If mutual understanding is not achieved, it comes into a tough, bloody battle to a victorious end. The tiger females are more favorable, can live with them on one territory and share its prey.
Hunting and nutrition
Predator hunts alone. Preyats waits near the trail or tracks out. The choice of a method of hunting depends on the time of year. IN summer time In search of the victim goes to the trail, winter hunts near the trail. For ambush, chooses a leeward side. Suspended to the victim quietly and unnoticed.
Tiger attacks lightning, making incredible long (up to 10 meters) jumping. The victim is enough for the throat and breaks her neck, sometimes it just stifles. Per day can eat up to 30 kg of meat. Near large premium remains for several days.
The daily diet includes all game living in the same region. As a rule, it is hoofs, hares, birds, monkeys. Loves nuts and fruits, eats grass.
Reproduction and care for offspring
The marriage period falls on December - January and is accompanied by stormy courtesies. The males find a female, ready for fertilization, by smell of labels left by the chosen. Other males, if such appear on the path of the tiger, meet a decisive rebuff and distilled away.
The female flow lasts a few days and repeats after a while, if the pregnancy has not come. Animals mate several times a day. The process is accompanied by a loud, heartbreaking roar.
The female is ready to raise offspring, reaching three - four years of age, but not more often than once every two to three years. Pregnancy on average last three months (98 - 112 days). Before the birth of babies, the tigress is equipped with a warm lair in hard-to-reach and safe places - in burmoroms, distant caves, dense mangrove thickets, ragins of rocks. The male is not allowed to the lair, as it is characterized by a fierce temper and it may well kill the newborn tigering, not participating in the upbringing of its offspring.
The sewar appears at the end of March - early April, consists of two, three or four kittens. Baby appear on the world blind, have a solid mass (1.3 to 1.5 kg), need permanent maternal care. Open eyes one week after birth.
Until one and a half months feed breast milk. Upon reaching two months, they can leave the Logov and accompany the mother in not distant campaigns. The female gradually taught them to meat food, teaches all the wisdom of hunting, serves as a reliable support and protection during the entire period of the joint stay.
By two years, young tigers are ready for independent life. Young females seek to equip their own lair near maternal hunting grounds. The males have to go in search of new, none of those who are not occupied territories. Often, old predators come across their paths and here you can no longer do without fatal for one of the individuals of contractions.
Female individuals reaches puberty at three to four years, male - in four to five years.
The duration of the life of animals in natural conditions Not exceeding 26 years.
Life in captivity
live in many world zoos and proper well. In some states of the United States, according to the calculations of specialists, 12 thousand predators are in the status of pets. They are tamed and leaving for training, but contain them outside the aviary is very dangerous. With age, the beast becomes aggressive and presents a real threat to life. How much is a tiger, you can find out in a specialized nursery.
Hybrids
The desire to profit holders of private zoos led to the appearance of a tiger hybrids. The most famous of them - Tigroles and Ligr.
- Tigrolev appeared as a result of the crossing of the tiger male and the lion female. The beast has a short mane, stripes and stains on the torso. Its mass does not exceed 150 kg. Females can give offspring, males sterile.
- Ligr - an unusual hybrid that grows all his life. In old age, his torso reaches a three-meter length. Mom Lira is a tigress, father - Male Lev. Females of leagues can be crossped with individual species.
Subspecies
This species has nine subspecies, three of which are completely exterminated by poachers.
- It dwells in the Ussuri Taiga, owns huge hunting grounds in the area (up to 800 km 2). It is very big Tiger, famous science. IN wildlife Preserved no more than 500 individuals of this subspecies. The weight of the tiger can reach 320 kg, the length of the body is 2.5 meters. Animal has thick, long wool And the thick layer of fat on the belly. It is distinguished by dim color and less than that of relatives, the number of strips. The beast is captured on the coat of arms of the Primorsky Territory.
- - Endemic of Bali Island. The last part was exterminated by poachers in 1937. Beasts had a short, hard fur bright orange shade and a small number of black stripes. Local residents did not like the animal, attributed it to dark and destructive strength.
- - It is included in the most numerous population (3-4.5 thousand individuals). Inhabit India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan. In some countries is considered to be a national animal. The middle mass of females is about 150 kg, males - 230 kg. Has light orange whether yellow color, brown stripes. The Terrible Rip of the Predator is heard at a distance of three kilometers. This subspecies received sad fame due to numerous attacks on people.
- Used on southern territory Russia, in Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Armenia, Turkey. Another name of the subspecies is the Caspian Tiger. The predator was exterminated in the sixties of the last century. He possessed a bright color with dark, numerous strips and long, thick wool. The largest tiger had a mass of 240 kg.
- Different in dark color, dwells on the Indochina Peninsula. The weight of adult males reaches 190 kg, females - 140 kg. The population is about 1.8 thousand individuals. Animal organs are illegally used by the healers of the East.
- - One of the most small subspecies. The weight of females does not exceed 120 kg, males 180 kg. The length of the animal body is in the range of 2.3 - 2.6 meters. In the wild of these animals, most likely no longer exists. The South Chinese Tiger is contained in China's Zoos, where only 59 individuals live.
- Chose the residence of the Malacca peninsula. In a separate subspecies, it was attributed only in 2004. The population has almost 800 individuals. The animal is depicted on the coat of arms of Malaysia.
- It dwells on the island of Sumatra. The number of subspecies is 400 - 500 individuals. An animal has relatively small, compared with Indian and amur subspeciesSizes. The weight of males does not exceed 130 kg, females - 90 kg. The beast is very aggressive, often attacks people.
- - Endemic of Java Island. The beast was completely destroyed in the year 79 of the last century. The animal had a small weight category - the minimum weight of the female reached 75 kg, male - 100 kg.
The Amur Tiger, is also called Ussuriovsky, - the northernmost and largest representative of these animals in the world. In addition, it is the only appearance Among these predators, adapted to survival in conditions of harsh winter, the symbol of the Far East, which has the smallest number of individuals among all other types of striped cats.
General
Listed in the Red Book, Amur Tiger prefers to lead single image Life. He hunts with great skill. First of all, on large animals, such as boys, roeers and deer, although sometimes it can eat smaller animals like rodents and even amphibians, as well as robust fish.
As follows from the name of this species, the striped predator dwells along the Ussuri Rivers and Amur in the foothills of Sikhote-Alin in the Far East of Russia. A small amount of them, only about 10% of total, Located in China. They live for a long time, just about some 15 years.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the striped predator was the absolute king of the taiga. About 1000 animals lived in the Far East, although then the question of how much Amur tigers left, almost no one was careful. They were worried about hundreds of individuals annually. In addition, massively destroyed them natural Area habitat. This led to the fact that by the 30s of the twentieth century of these animals in the USSR left less than a hundred.
Ussuri tiger today
In the clock for our country, the 90th problem of the preservation of the population of striped handsome people were concerned about international organizations, in particular, the World Wildlife Protection Fund or WWF. The programs adopted for two decades have provided for the achievement and maintenance of this species at the level of 450 individuals.
To date, environmental protection measures and attracting the public to this problem have made it possible to stabilize the situation. Reached the Amur tiger of the number in 2014 about 500 individuals. A special role in achieving such brilliant results was played by actively supported existing President RF Vladimir Putin Program "Amur Tiger".
Another representative of feline, Sumatran tiger, is also on the verge of extinction.
This program is designed to continue the study of the main predators of the East and develop a further plan for the optimal coexistence of a person and a tiger in the Far East. The use of special cameras, satellite collars and genetic studies of these animals every year make it all deeper to penetrate the world hidden from the eye and better to understand them.
Than you can help
Today, every wishes can contribute to maintaining the number of Ussuri Tiger, for example, by making a donation on the official website of the World Wildlife Protection Fund in Russia or by taking part in their program "Usinov Tigrenka".
In addition, to attract how more People to the problem of the disappearance of this species in Russia, the day of the Amur Tiger was introduced. It is celebrated since 2001 on the last Sunday of September. The most large-scale events are held in the city of Vladivostok. Year after year, the celebration causes more and more interest among the general public and attracts more and more people to the problem of the number of Far Eastern Tiger.
The question of the protection of animals today is very puzzled by scientists and "green", such events have already been introduced, for example, there is a day of the walrus.
Active agricultural human activity and the resumption of the number of tigers in the Far Eastern region put more and more complex issues to scientists and ecologists, the answers to which the peaceful and balanced coexistence of striped predators and people, as well as maintaining and maintaining their quantity.
Family felidae) Already 35 million years. Wild representatives Faby family is missing only in Australia and Antarctica. In total, their 36-35 species united in 4 kinds.
The largest and smallest
The largest wild cat is a tiger: its weight reaches 270 kilograms, but this is not the limit. Hunters happened to kill tigers of 320 kg. Lions on the will rarely weigh more than 200 kg, their weight category 125-250 kg. The experience of zoos and circus convinces: if a lion is taken with a tiger, then the first remains defeated. If the beasts do not dismiss in time, then the tiger bites the lion.
The largest tiger
... Amur. The smallest - probe, he before housing On Bali Island and now continues to live on Sumatra.
The biggest teeth
Of all the predatory animals, the tiger has the most big teeth, his jaws are so powerful that they allow him to eat a ridge to any terrestrial animal.
The smallest
...a black cat (felis nigripes) Which weighs exactly 270 times less. She is less than a domestic cat, lives in Africa, the largest cat weighs about 2 kg.
Miniature leopard
Marble cat It dwells in the same forests as the smoky leopard, as painted and also long, but almost half smaller. She hunts behind small trimming animals, frogs and lizards.
Small cats
Cat size depend on climate
Wild cats population depend on the climate: small cats live in countries with warm climat, Large - in cold conditions. Sumatran tiger is the smallest of the form (he is shorter than his northern rhodium) lives in the warmest districts, the Amur Tiger is the hardest thing in the coldest.
Sexual dimorphism
In many types of cats, male and female differ significantly from each other in size. Fish cat male (PRIONAILURUS VIVERRINUS) 11-12 kg, female - 6-7 kg. Fish cats belong to medium cats.
How many wild cats live in nature
African lions
Twenty years ago in Africa 230,000 Lviv, but today they are numbered only 23,000. Many of them are carriers of AIDS and bone tuberculosis. The reason for the catastrophic cuts of the livestock is the destruction by their person. Lions attack livestock. In the central regions of Kenya damage from lions caused by a cattle is estimated at $ A500 per year. One lion per year accounts for one cow or three sheep. This problem could be solved with the organization of a more efficient night guard, but the population prefers to solve it by poisonous bait and shooting animals.
Asian lions
In Asia now lives 300 Asian Lviv, which 1 in the Girsky Lion national Park, PC. Gujarat, India on the territory of 125,000 hectares.
Cheetahs We were distributed to most of the territory of Africa, Central and Western Asia. Today there are less than 15,000. The main enemy of hepard holders - wild dogs that live in the areas adjacent to the Sugar region, less than 5,500 remained in these areas of hepardians.
Striped skin
Tigers are not only striped fur, but also a striped skin.
How many tigers are left
Back in 1930 on Earth, approximately, 100 thousand tigers lived, of which 40 thousand in India. Today, only about 5,000 remains in the world of tigers. Most recently there were 8 subspecies of tigers. Caspian, Balinese, Javanese tigers destroyed completely. Today, there are only five subspecies: Bengal tiger - about 4,000 individuals (2000 - in Indochier, as much in India), Sumatran tiger - 600-700 individuals, Indochaysky Tiger - less than 1500 individuals. More optimistic calculations increase these numbers twice. Thanks adopted measures The population of Amur Tigers in the Far East of Russia has 450-470 individuals, in the territory of the Khabarovsk Territory it is much less - 60-70 and no more than 20 individuals in China on the border with Russia. In Manchuria and Korea - 50 tigers. On Java - from 6 to 14 tigers.
How many snow leopard in Russia
In total, about 2 thousand snow leopards of Irbisov live in the territory of the former USSR.
Rare wild cats
Spread iRIOMOTEY CAT (Felis Iriomotensis) limited about. Irisote, group O-Gossi Ryuku, Japan. Their number does not exceed hundreds; A few more individuals live in Japanese zoos.
Cats live and sleep in water
In Turkey, in Lake Wang, cats live, the whole life of which is associated with water. They not only live in the water, but even sleep in it.
If rain
Tiger resistant tolerate rain and wanders in its area. And leopards are hiding if it drips from the sky.
Fur in jaguar with a black speck in the outlet
Jaguar from Leopard is not every distinction. These animals are very similar, and the stains are similar in shape and color, only the jaguar is bigger, and some sockets with a small black speck in the center.
Tiger rear paws than front
Tiger is a very strong cat, with a powerful, muscular body, which allows him to successfully cope with a great victim. His hind legs longer than the front. Due to this, he easily jumps into his victim. Its large claws and a powerful, muscular shoulder belt allows you to capture prey so that it has no chance of salvation.
Feline nose
A feline nose leaves the imprint by which you can install his belonging to a cat in one or another - he identifies it as a fingerprint - man.
Drink a lot and bathe
During lunch, tigers are often located near the water bodies, because Drink a lot while eating. And on hot days, they spend many hours, swimming in water bodies. Tigers swim well and not thinking rushing into the water for prey. Where the tiger does not bother, he can lie in the water. Tigers swim well: large riversEven gang, swim without difficulty.
Water I. jaguar (Panthera ONCA) Not afraid - he loves to swim, and swims perfectly. Therefore, the inhabitants of the rivers and the lakes and have to feed this predator: the water lunch (capybaras), and turtles, and fish, and fish, and fish, and on the fish, hunt it from the shore, throwing them out of the water with powerful strokes. Even on crocodiles that are smaller, he hunts.
Jaguar in the boat
Jaguar swims well and swims the Amazon. There was such a case: Jaguar attacked people in the boat. They jumped into the water, and Jaguar sat down into the boat and swam away, glancing on the sides.
Cat-fisherman
CAT-FISH (PRIONAILURUS VIVERRINUS) - A relatively large cat weighing 12 kg, dwells on the coast of the Indian Ocean. In the trees he climbs reluctantly. But swims great. They say, even dives for fish as a otter.
And here sand Cat (Felis Margarita) Can live without water. They argue that it does not drink water. This is a small wild cat weighing 3.4 kg.
Cats learned to dive and swim
On the island of Milandmadul, located in Indian Ocean, Cats, having destroyed all the petty animals, were forced to learn to swim and dive and now earn their own food in the ocean, deftly hunting for fish.
The skin is also striped
Tigers are not only striped fur, but also a striped skin.
Five-per-meter layer of fat
In winter, amur tigers under the skin on the belly five-meantimeter layer of fat.
Puma lives wide
The living space is not a single cat as long as the Puma: from South Alaska to Mashellanova Strait. So it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Now the Puma is almost everywhere. The smallest pums (about 30 kg) live in tropical forests South America - They are with short red and brown wool. The largest pummas 9110 kg) inhabit Rocky Mountains North America and found on fiery ground.
Rug and do not grow
Lion lever (Panthera LEO) is heard at a distance of 5 miles. But the cheetah is not growling and does not meow - he eats a bark, screeching and chirping, but he knows how to purr. In a good mood, Bars purr, smoky leopard and puma too. But they can growl.
Hunting plot of lion
... ranges from 8 to 150 square miles. The lions of the males are guarded by this territory. A flock of lions, consisting of six Lviv males, twelve adults and young lion, can live within one site. Depending on the living conditions in this area and the number of other animals, the pack can occupy the territory of up to 400 square km., However, where food is more than enough, this territory can be significantly less.
The cougar lives in a plot of up to 100 miles in the circumference. Even if it is not disturbed, it wakes up within the site, without lingering anywhere for a long time.
Black and smoky cats
Leopards (Pantera Pardus) With the black coloring skins (black panthers) are especially common on the island of Java. In the same place, as well as in the mountain forests of Nepal, Sikkim, the whole southern China and Indochina live smoky leopards. They painted very beautifully: black marble pattern on a bright yellow background. Smoky leopards are highlighted in a special race, because in their anatomy, the features of both large and small cats are combined.
Children Fridays - Adults - No
Some pattern of fur, the Puma does not possess, although the kittens of her fridays. With the first linky stains disappear.
White and black leopards
Everyone knows about black panthers, but albinos and so-called flavists are also found in the family: they have little black paint, faded, black, in best case chocolate. African leopards stains are small, and the Asian has larger. The background tone in the Caucasian and Central Asian - sandy-gray, in the Far Eastern - reddish-yellow.
Maghers in Lvivthere are black and bright
The mars of Lviv are black and bright, modest and wide - across various mars are distinguished among Lviv 10-12 subspecies. Black mane from the Berberian and Somali Lviv, Masai, Kapsky and Persian - Maja are dark brown, others are yellow. The most magnificent mane was at the Berberian Lion, now exterminated.
Why cats have short jaws
As with all the cat, the tiger has short jaws, due to this, the capture strength and the depth of vigorous teeth will sacrifice many times.
Modern saber-chap
Skull U. smoky Leopard (Neofelis Nebulosa) An extended, which distinguishes it from the rest of the cats. He has more fangs than the rest of the cats in proportion to body sizes. Sometimes it is believed to modern "saber-tops".
Male half harder females
Lev-male is much greater than the female and 50 percent heavier by weight. It is easy to learn in a massive mane. The huge weight of the lion gives a crushing force to his blow. He easily scatters females when she takes prey. Many males live, feeding exclusively food, minor females, and almost never try to get anything themselves.
Mord Lion.
It's like fingerprints in humans. There are no two lions with the same muzzles (and even with the same mustache).
Bone with claws at the end of the tail
Lion long, thin and very strong tail. The most remarkable in it is a brush, and in it a claw, or rather a spike, made through the last vertebra.
Color vision of cats
There is a reason to assume that cats have colored eyesight - a rarity in the world of animals. In large predatory cats Pupil round. And in small (smoky leopard) - egglike.
Night vision Tiger Six times better than those due to the mechanism reflecting the light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than those of people.
Look, not blinking in the sun
Lion is called the king of animals for what he can, not blinking, look at the sun. Many other cats can also do it.
Vision Lviv
Five times better than human, the lion can hear the prey at a distance of miles.
The smell is weak
Leopards have great eyesight and rumor, but the smell is weak.
When a tiger hunts, he comes up with a leeward side of the attention to the sense of his victims, the tiger of the smell does not suit anywhere. In India, they say that the tiger is the smartest after an elephant beast. He seems to imites the shout of a deer, lifting him. But when she chases monkeys. He growls scary, and those frightening, weaken from fear and fall to the ground.
The most fluffy
Manyuul fur (Otocolobus Manul) is so thick and long, as no one has more cats.
In Australia and Oceania, wild cats are not found.
The lioness attract males with a dark and lush mane
... more than lions with bright and short. The dark color of the mane is usually observed in lions with a high content of the main men's patrosterone sex hormone in the blood. Under its action, the development of men's genital organs and secondary sexual signs is enhanced. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the lions prefer males with more dark maneAnd other lions are afraid of them.
Fingers and claws
All cats are drawn to claws, with the exception of the cheetah, which moves, touching the ground claws. Interestingly, up to four months claws in young cheetahs. Like all cats, can be drawn into fingers. With age, they are losing this ability. On the front paws of the tiger five fingers, and on the rear - four. On all fingers tiger there are claws from 80 to 100 mm long.
Go through snow
Various predators of our forests are in different ways adapted to winter deep-mains. So, for example, the wolf is weakly adapted to run through the snow, which is explained by the small support surface of his paws. Weight load per 1 square. See of 89-103, for him, in the fi, these indicators are 34-39 g, and wolverines - 20-35 g, the tiger - 155 per quarter. cm.
Cat-climber
Snow Leopard, or Irbis (Uncia Uncia) - a resident of Altai Mountains, Pamirs, Tien Shan, Alpine Mongolia, Tibet, Himalayas), lives at an altitude of 2-3 thousand m above sea level. In the summer, following the mountain hoofs, Bars rises even higher - to six thousand meters. He clock Karaulit somewhere on a rock or under the cliff of rams or goats.
The largest predator in Madagascar
it is a phossis - an animal weighing from 5 to 10 kg, remotely resembling a cat.
The fastest mammal
it cheetah Acinonyx Jubatus, Which develops at short distances speed 96 km (60 miles) per hour, there is data and 105-115 km per hour. And according to unofficial data, some hunters with stopwalls were measured by the speed of the race of cheetah and say: 140 kilometers per hour. From other wild cats lion reaches the speed of 75-80. The usual speed of the lion in the first minutes of hunting - kilometers of 50 per hour.
The longest cat
also a cheetah. After South American grivist Wolf. Cheetah is the most long-legged predatory beast. He impressed the dog with a cat head.
Tigers defeated Lviv
Tiger holds better because he has more experience in martial arts, a lion living in the pride is used to count on his comrades. For this reason, not only people, but also tigers, were supplanted from Asia Lviv.
Most of the African lions sleep
Swiss zoologist P. Codger traveled through countries and continents, finding out how many different animals are sleeping. It turned out that African lions sleep most. When in Tanzania, lions on the neck tied transistor transmitters on the neck, it turned out that one lion slept per day for 20 hours. For three weeks he passed, hunting and having fun, only 90 km.
Sleep on the trees
Where there are many elephants and rhinos, so that these thick-skinned people disappear, the lions sleep on the trees, stretching on the bitch and swelling the paws down.
Jaguars are able to sleep on the trees, hiding in foliage so that they won't notice them. True, the tail will remove his tail, and it hangs out from the branch, warning other animals about the danger.
Sleep on the trees
Where there are many elephants and rhinos, so that these thick-skinned people disappear, the lions sleep on the trees, stretching on the bitch and swelling the paws down.
Jaguars are able to sleep on the trees, hiding in foliage so that they won't notice them. True, the tail will remove his tail, and it hangs out from the branch, warning other animals about the danger.
Tig Power
Great Tiger power. Wild Bull Guara, whom one tiger killed, he dragged almost 12 meters along the ground. 13 people could not shift the carcass of this bull. Another tiger prickly horse and dragged it on the ground 500 m. rare casesWhen young elephants who beat off the herd, Tigers won in a difficult battle. The case described when two tiger attacked an adult elephant and killed him.
But when the tiger is hungry, it eats rodents, frogs and even berries.
Speed \u200b\u200band jumping
The lioness can develop the speed of 35 miles per hour for a short distance, the length of the jump can reach 30 feet.
African Leopards (Pardhera Pardus) can jump on trees up to 5.5 meters high.
Puma Concolor jumps 5-6 m in height, and from height down - sometimes 14 m.
Sensual Lynx itself - Caracal
Caracal (Caracal) can catch birds on the fly. It sings to sitting on the ground and jumps high up her. Birds are taken off with shouts, and the beast quashes them in the air claws. This is the middle Asian cat weighing 18 kg. Wool from the caragaron is a monophonic, redhead, and a young friday.
Lynx growls tens of kilometers
When a lot of mining, and the main mining of northern lynx (Lynx Lynx) is a hare, the hunter remains in the usual place. If the hares are little, lynx leaves for tens of kilometers. If the attack is unsuccessful, she pursues prey and day, and two.
SERVALS NOT LOVE LOVE
Servala (Leptailurus Serval) on the trees are able to climb, but do not like it. Only from wild dogs they are looking for shelters over the ground: in the branches of acacia or baobabs.
The most lurable
Roar lion. It is heard at a distance of several miles, it is not a roar, and the thunder is heaven. More often, however, the lions growl into the plenty, which is also impressive. However, the most amazing feature Lion conversations are shredding. Lions are capable of making strange sounds, which seem to go not through the throat, but from the belly. In this way, the old lion leads the hunt, feeding the subordinates of the wore instructions.
Do not growl
Jaguar - The only cat that does not growl.
Murlychut and growl
Smoky leopards They know how to purr, like small cats, but they also know how to growl.
Clean leopards
Leopards, like domestic cats, burhes, and tiger and Lev. - not.
How Chepads livepads livepads
Cheetahs Often combine into small groups. This females with grown young chepads, sometimes a few adult males are also hunting together. In the "men's" company they take and females. Sometimes this beast lives and extracts satisfying alone. But the associations alone females did not see anywhere.
Sometimes tigers are combined
If, by virtue of some circumstances, one tiger is becoming very difficult to extract, then several tigers can unite for hunting. But Tsigritis is usually settled separately and thoroughly make their territory. Usually, hunting holds of females do not border with each other and, moreover, do not intersect. However, the holdings of the male tigers can border or even include possessing several females. Tigritz labels help the males find them if they are ready for mating. Maintaining and maintaining the territory in its borders is necessary for the survival of tigers. While the tiger bypasses its territory, he can learn about good places For hunting, rejecting offspring, etc.
If sometimes it happens to see a few tigers together, then it is most likely a tigress with their cubs that remain with the mother until they can independently extract food.
Internal structure of the cozeny
Within a flock, herd, etc. There is a complex internal structure of the coented individual individuals or groups on "ranks". Lions are the only of cats living with flocks (prides). In Prasea, there are several animals: the male (usually one adult. But sometimes two or three), females, young, young lions. Sometimes the number of animals reaches 30, but more often there are about 18. Pride is led by the old lion - the head of the family. Observed and the prides consisting of the lioness alone.
Ownership of Lviv
Pride possessions are dozens of square kilometers of thickets and open places. People, as a rule, do not interfere with lions.
Tails of wild cats almost never rise above the back.
How bachelor live
The males exiles are sometimes knocked in a flock, where they have more opportunities to survive. Pride males-bachelors are short-lived. Movable by instincts, males go to the prides, where the lionesses live, and they are trying to fight for leadership. In the heat of battle, success accompanies the strongest and clever, and the once friendly flock of males will soon disintegrate.
How much do lions eat
The pride of four lions kills a large antelope or zebra once a week. One lion per year destroys approximately fifteen large animals with an average weight of one hundred ten kilograms. He divides his prey with relatives in a flock.
Eat meat from three weeks
Three-week "kittens" cheetah besides milk eating meat.
How to hunt lions
While one of the lions scares, distracting attention. His comrades are sitting in ambush. Floinsky crawling in the grass. Bloody role is usually assigned to a lioness young lions. The old lion leads the hunt. Surprising the condescending role of Lviv to Jackal: while the lioness eats from the middle, Shakals pull in the end of the victim. But the hyenas lions are fascinated at a convenient case, because the hyenas attack the dyeing lions.
Lion males teach the hunt late
Lion males teach the hunt later than the lioness, sometimes young lions begin to learn only in the fifth year of life. Consequently, it is important that the males remain in their native pride as long as possible, but they usually be expelled when they are still young.
Leopards drain the prey on a tree
There is one essential feature that distinguishes leopards from other large cats: it is a habit of dragging the prey on a tree. Thus, their food remains in preservation and will not get the victims and rival predators with leopards - lions and hyenas.
Hunting not feline
Hunting style at the cheetah is not a cat sample. At first he looks out of his victims from a high hill, defending Jerva, crashes, and for 20-100 meters to the goal throws into pursuit. Immediately developing striking acceleration. It will catch up - hits the front Alps, pouring off her feet and immediately bite into the throat. If the cheetah does not catch up to game at the first hundreds of meters, he does not pursue it anymore.
Hunting
Every fourth hunting is successful
Each fourth attack of Lviv ends, as a rule, a complete victory of predators. When the hunters greedily pounce on their prey, the male-lion appears. It is not excluded that a pack of hyen may be nearby. Usually lions, painting with a big killed animal, generously allows others to enjoy prey.
Wild cats instantly kill their mining snacking her ridge In the field of cervical vertebrae. Chance to apply such an accurate and efficient bite - one per million.
Strategy - Pursuit
Tiger hunt alone. The tiger strategy hunting strategy comes down to the persecution of the victim in the most impassable thickets, where she has no chance of salvation. Here he is on her and attacked. When a tiger attacks, he attacks the sacrifice from the side or behind. Tiger shake his sacrifice, coming her throat. He will not be offended and the goat, and dogs hates
If a leopard Not hungry, he will not be offended by a goat. The leopard nourishes enmity to dogs and stifles them as soon as they can succeed. There was a case when the leopard helped the dog straight out of the table on the veranda in front of the people.
Leopard against monkeys
Leopards kill thousand bubunins every year, and when the leopards are completely destroyed, the baboons became in many areas a serious problem. They attack sheep and even on people.
10 cm fangs
W. leopard Fangs with the size of the blade of the Ficks, 10 cm. And very sharp.
Leopard does not use paths
Leopard has no certain routes, it appears unexpectedly. When meeting with the violator of the borders, the leopard enters into a fight.
Larves attack large crocodiles
Crocodiles attack Lviv on hot days, when those come to get drunk waters: grab and drag them into the water.
Tiger attacks people from behind
Usually tigers avoid contact with man. However, in India, people traveling to the places where Tigers live, put on the head of the mask depicting the face of a person. The fact is that tigers are always pounced for a sacrifice from behind. In such a mask, staying in the forest is relatively safe. Tiger does not pursue people in such masks: After all, he does not see the "back," does not find it, because it does not attack.
How tigers are talking
Tiger growls during a fight or makes a victorious growl after have a good hunting. When meeting with a man or rival, a tiger hits or threateningly urchit. When attacking he snorts like domestic cat. During the love meetings, the tiger gently rushes, sometimes moving to meowing.
Living Cat
The tiger struck by the shot in the heart continues to live for another 10-20 seconds. Badded a tiger deadly shot remains for a while stand on the legs.
Tiger telepathy
When tiger It goes through the jungle, birds, deer and monkeys shouting anxiously, seeing him. Even a person, not yet seeing a tiger, not expecting his appearance feels a special strange anxiety - perhaps it is telepathy. Busty emotions of the beast subconsciously worry a person.
Theft
Lions hunt for large animals: zebras, gazelles, anti-flame GNU and are not bend theft, taking prey from other predators, mainly in Hyen and Chepadov.
In addition to cheetah, all major cats eat not only fresh meat, but also Padal, more often for old age.
Mourning lion
Mourning Lviv Praid lasts 4 hours. The first eats lion, although the prey brought a lioness. After the meal, the lion goes on the water, and he drinks 20 minutes. The lion in the zoo eats 15 pounds of meat daily, in nature the lions eat twice a week.
Most of the attacks of the tiger ends successfully
A striped tiger skin serves as a good camouflage in the forests and shrubs, and thanks to soft pads on the paws, it moves almost silently. Most of his attacks end successfully.
Alive canned jaguar
Hunting the sea on the turtles, Jaguar throws them with a belly up one after another. Turtles turn over and crawl Sai, but do not die, do not deteriorate. Then jaguar comes and sculpts from the shell of those who are tired of lying up back and torn heads.
Trapez Tigger
Tiger (Panthera Tigris) Middle a day eats 7-9 kg of meat. Tigress with young quickly straightens even with a large animal. The female with 2 young have to kill one big animal every 5 or 6 days to feed. In the year, the tigra requires about 2.5-3 tons of meat, almost twice as much as the lion is required. Taking into account the skins and guests, the total weight of the victims of the tiger is 4.5 tons. The Indian Tiger eats a Baschara deer in two days, and buffalo for three to four days. Satisfied, it covers the prey with branches, and is located on vacation nearby.
Polite sotrazniki
Later, when cigarette is growing, their father comes to spend a family. Sometimes it happens during lunch. J. Shacher saw once an adult tiger, two tigerits and four crucibles, which are quite friendly, without quarrels, ate one bull. Another time the tigress and four tiger "dinner" when an adult tiger appeared. He was hungry and larger at mining. However, it was politely waiting for the side, until the kids were found. And only then began to dare.
Beware of dickwork
Tigers and leopards, When hungry, attack on dickening. They do not always manage to dodge and grab a barbed head, the needles of the dickery deeply go into the muscles of the predator in the event of an unsuccessful hunting. In the body of tigers found chips needles thick with a pencil and a quarter meter long - up to fifty pieces.
Lion comes from the wind
No hunter is chosen to game from the other side where the wind blows. And the lion does this way. His task is to scare a victim, distract her attention from ambush.
Cannibals
Lions, tigers and others big cats may be cannibals. Tigers apparently attack people more often than other cats, and the causes of such behavior are not clear so far. It is possible that it is provoked by the sizes of a person corresponding to the size of animals, which are usually attacked by tigers; In addition, an old or wounded tiger is easily thrown onto a person. Only 3 percent of the entire tigers' population can be cannibals. More people Died in Africa from crocodiles than from Lviv.
Attracted by frog quiced
Once a tiger attacked a man who had a bag with frogs. It is said that Tigro attracted a froggy jacket.
Lynx in hostility with wolves
In winter, the wolves attack the leaps of the packs, stood on the ground and tear it. If the lynx will meet a single wolf, she sniples it.
Loving cats
Mammalian mammal record holders lions and tigers. Tigers can pair up to 50 times a day for five or six days with duration of each act from 5 to 15 minutes. However, they are inferior to the Australian crickets (Ornebius Aperta) - the mackest males can be copulled 50-58 times within 3-4 hours with the same female.
Nevoye at any time
W. leopards The male and female not only at the time of reproduction, but also in another time they live nearby and are very gentle with each other: they love to play and get rid.
Milk threefold nutritional cow
Barca fatty milk, threefold nutritional cow.
Lioness gives birth alone
When the time of reproduction comes, the lion takes the girlfriend away away from Pride. Then they return to Pride. After 100-108 days, the lioness leaves the pride - to give birth. The lair arranges in the thick of the prickly bushes or in a mountain cleft. After birth 3, less often 5-6 lion, she lives with him in solitude, and at the age of one and a half months leads their offspring to Pride.
Blizzard mating led to serious degradation of South-China tigers
The high frequency of diseases and "mental weakness" threaten the existence and development of this on the verge of extinction of animal species is such a sad situation, Chinese specialists say. The South-China Tigers living in China are the offspring of six "grandparents" and "grandmothers" caught in 1956 in the wild. As a result of the close-level pairing and the "carefree life", tigers had such signs of degeneration as a underdeveloped physique, physical weakness, lowered immunity and other ailments.
It grows tiger one female
The tigers are combined only on a small segment of time. It grows a tiger one female. In the area there are two - four tigering weighing from 800 to 1750 grams. They spend the first two months in the shelter, which mother finds before they appear on the light. Then the kids begin to gradually move to the prey brought by Tigritis, but they suck the maternal milk to six months and the first three years of their lives are carried out with Tigritis, in full dependence on it. Therefore, females can bring offspring only once every three or four years.
Pudda females do not start young at the same time
The lions multiply at any time of the year, nevertheless the females of one flock (Pride) prefer to have a cub at the same time (so that it was easier to protect them from other predators and Lviv-males of another pride). They even feed them without sharing their and strangers. If one female dies, the rest care about the deceased.
Moms Cheetahs
Moms-cheetahs are so exhausted, taking care of their playful offspring, which happens, fall asleep, stepping for the prey.
Lions kill the cubs
One of the mysteries of the behavior of Lviv was that the males killed their cubs for some reason. Now this mystery is solved. The fact is that the attack of males is caused by their jealousy to young facilities. Male lions do not tolerate unnecessary rivals in their stack, so they strive to get rid of them. There is another explanation for such cruel and incomprehensible behavior. The male in this way encourages the female to the birth of new young. And they have more chances for survival than former young. Yes, and food will get more.
Can eat cubs
Father Is leopard Unimportant: At the event, it is not averse to eat the cub. The female therefore secretly builds the lair.
Black day meat
The young leopard weigh 20-80 kg and unusually voracious. Meat they straighten on a high tree.
About young cares father
Male- cheetah Cares about the female and offspring and brings them food. If the cheetah female dies, his father does not throw a young.
Leopards are born in Duples
Succession smoky leopard gives rise to a tree of wood, in the litter there are 1-5 young, each weighing 150-280 grams.
Barz from the nest of the griff
Often snow leopards are arranged the lair in the nests of the griffs on low trees. There and they are born offspring.
Ripped wool with bracles
Mother barca (Uncia Uncia) He insulates the lair, pulling out wool from the belly. Also also makes a reed cat (Felis Chaus). Other cats - no.
Loss of genetic diversity
Chepdo In nature, there are no more than 20,000, the cubs of the cheetah, living in the reserves, do not live up to the year in 70% of cases, and in zoos, in the safest conditions, are dying to 30% of kittens. The reason was the loss of the genetic diversity of the species. Almost all of now living cheetahs are genetically almost identical. Most probable reason This phenomenon is a certain long-standing (10-12 thousand years ago) of a catastrophe, after which one or two pairs of these animals survived. Thus, all cheetahs are very close relatives who do not receive "fresh blood", and therefore possess the same set of signs obtained from both the Father and from the mother. They completely lost the ability to adapt.
Jaguar is not a relative leopard
On the view of the American Jaguar (Panthera ONCA) - a poured leopard. It has a length of up to 1.8 meters, without taking into account, its weight is from 36 to 158 kg. And in fact, both animals are close relatives. It turned out even that females, the mix of Leopard and Jaguar, is capable of continuing the genus.
Barca love to ride from the mountains
Barcas love to play and wallow in the snow. Curving, they move from the rock on the back, and at the bottom quickly turn over and fall into a snowdrift for all four paws.
Puma jumps for butterflies
Puma loves to have fun: fighting, jumps behind the butterflies, tumbling, catches his tail, if you don't play with whom. If she meets with a man in the desert, he never attacks ever - running down, bouncing and swarm the land of a paw, as if inviting a person to play.
Lion's life expectancy
... 13 years old, Lion "Nero", who has lived 29 years in the West German Zoo. The average life expectancy of Tiger: 16-18 years old. In zoos, tigers live on average twenty - twenty-five years. In general, tigers can live 40-50 years.
Close the Tasmansky Tigra
Scientists of the Australian Museum managed to get a gene material of the Tasmansk tiger disappeared for more than half a century ago - the largest predator inhabited on this continent. The last individual of this animal died in the zoo of the city of Gobart 66 years ago, however, in May 1999, scientists managed to accidentally discover in one of the archives a test tube with the embryo of the Tasmansky Tiger. Now researchers have to clone the animal, for which it is necessary to find the "surrogate" mother and implant her DNA cells. They argue that in about 2010 they will be able to revive this animal.
Tiger type and belongs to the largest. He is able to survive with extremely low temperatures And it is not afraid of the chilling northern wind. It has more thick wool than the southern fellow, and on the belly there is a layer of fat with a thickness of five centimeters, which protects the beast from the cold.
Fabric Feligious Family flexible body, rounded head with very short ears, rather short paws and a long tail. Interesting features of the view of the Amur Tiger. It distinguishes colors well, unlike many other cats. And he sees better than a person, in full five times!
Amur tiger is able to run through the snow at a speed of up to 50 kilometers per hour.
Tiger body length - from 2.7-3.8 meters, weight from 160 to 270 kilograms. Color color - orange, with white belly. Amur tigers are somewhat lighter than other types. The duration of their lives is about 15 years.
The males are usually one by one, and the "personal" territory of each of them can be up to 800 square kilometers. Females are sometimes collected in groups.
Tigers can communicate with each other. They welcome each other with special sounds resembling a growl. In the sign of the friendliness can touch each other or rub the faces and sides.
Number and distribution
The main is the territory of Russia. A small population (about 50 individuals) is also in China. By the way, the death penalty is provided for a punishment for the murder of the Amur Tigger.
In 2012, one of the oldest predators on the planet died in the Khabarovsk Territory - 21-year-old Amur Tiger Lut. Once, Russian and American doctors jointly conducted a unique operation on the restoration of the jaw.
In Russia, the range of distribution of the Amur Tigger - in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, along the Ussuri and Amur Rivers. Most of all these animals occurs in the Lazovsky district of Primorsky Krai, in the foothills of Sikhote-Alin. The total number of wild Amur in Russia according to research data from 1996 is about 415 - 176 individuals (more precisely to say how many individuals remained in, it is not possible). About 450 tigers are contained in various zoos worldwide. The total number of amur tigers is reduced.
The number of rare predators in the wild rose from 3200 to 3890 individuals. Such data on April 11 publish WWF and the Intergovernmental Organization "Global Tigria Forum".
According to the latest data, the most tigers dwells in India - 2226 individuals, Russia (for details, see below), Indonesia - 371, Malaysia - 250, Nepal - 198, Thailand - 189. To other Countries of "Tigry" Arealas include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos and Myanmar.
An increase in the number of tigers explains a number of reasons. First, in itself an increase in the number of predators associated with the strengthening of the protection of the type and places of its habitat. The increase in the number of tigers is noted in Russia, India, Nepal and Bhutan. Secondly, in five countries in 2013-2015. Accounting of predators passed, which allowed to clarify the data on their number.
"For the first time recent decades The number of tigers is not reduced, but grows. It gives us hope and shows that when the authorities, locals and specialists in the field of nature conservation combine efforts, we can save rare species and their habitats ",- Stressed Marco Lambertini, General Director of the WWF International Secretariat.
Nevertheless, environmentalists continue to talk about the need to enhance the protection of the tiger: over the past 100 years, the number of predators in the wild decreased by 97% (from 100 to 3.5 thousand animals). Illegal trade in derivatives (parts of bodies) of tigers are actively going. According to the calculations of the organization Traffic law enforcement agencies different countries in 2000-2014 More than 1,500 illegal trade transactions with Tiger derivatives were recorded.
According to WWF, now there is a particularly alarming situation in South-East Asia. If the governments of the countries of this region do not take efforts, tigers may disappear from wildlife on this territory.
In Russia, the total number of Amur Tigers, according to 2015 accounting, ranges from 523 to 540 individuals. Of these, adult predators are about 430. In 1996, the population consisted of approximately 415-476 individuals.
"We are proud that our country contributes a significant contribution to an increase in the number of tiger. Such a success has become possible, among other things, thanks to more than 20 years of purposeful work of the Ministry of Industry, WWF and other organizations in the Far East of Russia ", - noted by the director of WWF Russia Igor Chestin.
Data on the number of predator are presented on the eve of the opening of the III of the Intergovernmental Conference on the preservation of the Tiger. The meeting will be held from 12 to 14 April in Delhi, India.
The previous assessment of the number of rare animal in the world was prepared for the 2010 Tigrin Summit, which was held in St. Petersburg. At the same time, the main task was formulated - to double the number of tigers to 6,000 by 2022.
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