Indochina tiger, whose photo is in front of you, is named after the naturalist from England Jim Corbett. In Latin, the name of the striped handsome man sounds like Corbetti.
Indochina tiger: description
Indo-Chinese tigers are particularly large in sizecan not boast. In this regard, they are inferior to the Amur and Bengal subspecies. The body of an Indo-Chinese handsome man is elongated, very flexible and muscular. In length it reaches 2.4-2.9 m, average weight 110-190 kg, although there are "boys" weighing up to 250 kg. Females are much smaller than males.
The head is round with small ears.The forehead is convex, there are 30 teeth, the upper canines are very large. Predator with his tongue is able to rip off the skin from meat and meat from the bones of prey. The fact is that there are sharp bumps in the tongue.
The tail is long, extremely mobile. The forelimbs are more powerful than the hind legs. On the paws are the elongated claws.
The main background color can be fromred-orange to the color of dark ocher. There are, of course, black narrow bands, in some cases they take the form of spots. There are no strips or spots on the front legs. There is a white color on the throat, belly, cheeks and inner side of the paws.
Habitat
The Indo-Chinese tiger is a subspecies that inhabits Southeast Asia. In natural conditions it can be found in Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.
Indochina tiger: lifestyle
Tiger Corbett is extremely secretive and solitaryanimal. It is very difficult for zoologists to collect data on it, so the way of life of the Indochinese tigers has not been fully studied to this day. In a natural environment, these predators live up to 16-18 years, in captivity - up to 24-26 years.
The Indochinese tiger prefers living on the banks of the Salween and Mekong rivers, in dry tropical and subtropical moist forests, on hilly and mountainous terrains.
A striped predator hunts, mostly on a largegame. Its menu consists of: bulls, deer, wild pigs ... If it is not possible to catch such game, the tiger enjoys with pleasure a monkey, porcupine, birds, fish or reptiles. Sometimes, for want of a better option, the beast can eat carrion.
This beautiful powerful animal has the same powerful voice. The tiger can growl, meow, hiss ... The range of sounds issued is very wide.
Predator Character
Indochina tiger is a predator that hunts innight time or at dusk. Extraction lurks from an ambush, but you can not be lucky, as only one attempt out of ten becomes effective. In the afternoon he prefers to lie back in the shade. Water is not afraid, on the contrary, in hot dachshunds likes to swim.
Indochina tiger has sharp eyesight andexcellent hearing. With olfaction, things are much worse. Vibrissae serve as the organ of touch for the beast. Compared to other tiger species, Corbett is considered not high, but the striped animal is very strong. Sluggish it can not be called, it can develop speeds up to 70km / hour. and go for a night long distances. The jump of this handsome man is 10 meters.
As mentioned earlier, the Indochinese tigerlives alone. Females are only forced to spend most of their life growing offspring. The males do not take part in this. Each predator has its own territory, the boundaries of which it marks with scrapes on trees and urine. The male occupies a much larger area than the female. His possessions are partly overlapped by areas of females. Each animal fiercely defends its "home", not allowing the invasion of the occupied territory of other tigers.
The striped predator loves to move about the possessions through abandoned paths, overgrown with young trees and bushes, which people laid during the harvesting of the tree.
Marriage period
When the mating season comes, males matewith females - neighbors, those whose possessions border on the possessions of the tiger. There are no specific dates for the mating of these predators, reproduction occurs throughout the year, but all the same, the preferred time for the mating games of striped beauties is winter.
Sexually mature animals are considered with 3-5years, "girls" are earlier. When a tigress begins estrus, she marks the boundaries of her possessions with urine. Thus, the males - neighbors immediately recognize that it is ready for marriage. If the female liked at once several knights, then they, in order to achieve the favor of the chosen one, arrange fights among themselves. One female can mate with several males, her cubs will then be from different fathers.
The mating period lasts about 6-8 days. All this time the male and female live together, hunt together and sleep side-by-side, mating during the day dozens of times.
Offspring
The female breeds once every two years.In his womb, he has calves about 96-113 days old. During pregnancy, a tigress looks after a safe, hard-to-reach place for a lair, and childbirth takes place there.
In one litter there are 2-3 helpless kittens. Tigers are born deaf and blind. It is sad to note the fact that 35% of tigers die without noticing even the first year of life.
Approximately 7 days after birthstriped babies see the light. The teeth (milky) begin to grow by the age of two weeks, the permanent fangs grow by the year. Lactation of a nursing female lasts up to six months, but already at 2 months the tiger cubs begin to taste the meat.
From the age of six months, the mother begins to teach cubs.hunt for small prey. At eight months of age, young tigers accompany a tigress - a mother on a hunt. This continues until they are one and a half years old. At this age, the "boys" leave their native den and enter into an independent adult life. “Girls” stay with their parent much longer (20-28 months).
Population
Индокитайский тигр занесен в Красную книгу.About 1600 individuals of this species live in the wild today. Zoos contain approximately 60 tigers. These animals are on the verge of extinction. They were hunted for teeth, claws and hides. Healers of Chinese medicine also used internal organs that have healing properties. It was precisely for the entrails in Vietnam that three-quarters of the tigers were exterminated.
The main factors that affect the reductionthe number of Indochinese tigers: deforestation, poaching, oil palm cultivation, depletion of food supply, range fragmentation, inbreeding. It is time for people to think about the need to urgently ensure the protection of these beautiful predators.
