Panthera tigris altaica Wonder 1

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Save the Amur Tiger Project
Panthera tigris altaica- Wonder ?1
2008-2009
Komsomolsk-na-Amure Sch.1 Form 8 Vasiliev
Dmitry/ Lepeshkin Timophey The teacher -
Nekrasova T.M.
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To the 70-th anniversary of Khabarovsk Krai7
Wonders 28/11/2008
The Amur tiger tops the list of contestants of
the Seven Wonders of Khabarovsk territory
contest. The Amur tiger became one of the seven
wonders of Khabarovsk Territory

• 7 WONDERS (the results of voting)
• THE AMUR TIGER (3880 votes)
• DUSSE ALIN PLATO (1755 votes)
• SHANTAR ISLANDS (1630 votes)
• THE LAKE AMUT (1561 votes)
• THE BRIDGE OVER THE AMUR RIVER (1112 votes)
• LOTUS-THE FLOWER (1044 votes)
• PETROGLYPHS OF SICACHI ALIAN (962 votes)

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• If you want to know
• What the tigers habitat is
• If it can swim
• If people can be friends with tigers
• What it looks like
• Which species do not exist.
• If people can save the tigers
• and much more about tigers..
• Watch our Project!

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To Live or not to Live?

• Among the 8 species only 5 are alive
• Bali Tiger, Yava Tiger and Turan do not exist any
  more
• There are only 334-417 adult individuals and
  97-112 cubs inhabiting the Russian Far East /
  statistic data of 2003 NATURE WITHOUT BORDERS.
  Alexander Kulikov, Candidate of Biology. Magazine
  Far East. Issue 3. p.2-8/
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  Lets think about it together

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Amur Tiger is

• The largest of the five tiger species left
  roaming the planet.
• It is a rare predator threatened with extinction.
  
• It is the biggest and one of the most furious
  cats.
• Its an animal included into the Russian
  Federation Red Lists of Threatened Species.
• It is the most beautiful alive animal living in
  the taiga of the Russian Far East.

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The area of sites of dwelling of tigers Males
- 600-800 km / Females to 300-500 km. Tigers are
very conservative. They often use the same tracks.
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Reproduction of the Amure Tiger
Females bring brooding not less often, than
alternate years, starting to participate in
reproduction from 2-4 years. Pregnancy lasts
95-107 days, on the average 103 days. In a dung
usually 1-4 baby-tigers more often 2-3are born.

• Kids are helpless. The kids weight is less than
  a kilo, but it grows quickly. It starts eating
  meat at two-months old, but the tigress gives it
  milk for about half a year.
• The tiger does not take any participation in
  education of children.

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Do white tigers live in the Far East?

• White tigers live in the Far East as well as in
  India and China.
• Its a rare specie a real wonder of nature.
• White tigers have brown stripes and crystal blue
  eyes, and some specimens in captivity have no
  stripes at all.

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What does it look like?
The largest of all the living cats, the tiger
has got a unique reddish - orange coat with black
stripes. Stripe patterns differ among
individuals. The dark lines are symmetrical, but
the marks on the sides of the face and body can
be different. In summer the coloring is
brighter, and in winter the fur becomes long and
shaggy. The tigers body is lengthened, the
head is round, the legs are not long and the tail
is contrary long
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• Size and Weight
• Body length with head and with tail- 3 meters
  (9.8 feet).
• Adult female weights - 130 kg (290 pounds)
• Adult male - 190 kg -300 (420-770 pounds).
• A newborn cubs weight - 1kg (2 pounds)
• 3 months cub - 10 kg (22 pounds).
• 3 yearsold cubs weight -over 100 kg (220
  pounds).

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Do you know that the size of a tiger is judged
by its step /70-80 sm/
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Pads and Claws

• Soft pads allow tigers to sneak silently upon its
  prey
• Long (up to 10 cm (4 inches)) sharp claws serve
  to capture the pray.

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Where does it live?

• Once Amur tigers lived from Lake Baikal to
  northern China. Now, some 200-400 animals live
  along the Amur River in the national parks of the
  Far East of Russia.
• The tiger inhabits the Sikhote-Alin mountain
  chain along the southwestern and northwestern
  borderlines with China.
• The Amur tiger habitat area makes up 123,000 km2.
  

• The typical for the Amur tiger habitat is a mixed
  cedar-broad-leaved forest, covering mountain
  slopes and hills.

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Can the tiger swim?
Unlike domestic animals tigers like to swim
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What do they eat?

• The basic food is a wild boar and a roe deer or
  a spotted deer, siberian stag and even dogs.
• The tiger can cover 40-60 km per day.
• It needs a big area to survive.
• The tiger insistently moves around the selected
  area making the tracking paths, hiding before
  jumping and attacking the victim.
• With its large, up to 7.5 cm - long (3 inches)
  the tiger snaps at its prey and kills it.
• Tigers, as well as other cats, do not chew the
  meat, but divide it into pieces with the help of
  molars and then swallow.

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How long do tigers live..

• In sanctuaries tigers live more
  than 26 years, as compared to 15 in the wild.
  Tigers only live 10-12 years in zoos.
• They will survive if they are not captured for
  their skin, bones, claws.

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• Tigers have always been popular in myths,
  although they paid ? very high price for that.
  Tibetan Medicine used almost every part of their
  body - bones, teeth, lips, claws, mustaches to
  produce 'magical drugs'. For centuries tigers
  have been hunted and there are n? tigers left in
  China now.

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Fighting for survival
Poaching, human caused destruction of tiger
habitat, a decline in the number of ungulates
that are the predator's primary prey, these are
the factors that today threaten the survival of
the tiger in the wild.
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• We should know that.
• In Russia's Red Book of Endangered Species, the
  Amur tiger is attributed to Category I as a rare,
  decreasing in numbers subspecies, which is placed
  under the threat of extinction.
• Hunting for tigers is prohibited since 1947.

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• Nowadays, lots of green organizations decided to
  cooperate. They are raising money, fighting
  poaching, catching cubs for zoos and parks. The
  results are promising - many zoos around the
  world have beautiful ?mur Tigers descended from
  the little cubs caught in the Far East of Russia.

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Local projects

• WWF's first project in the south of the Russian
  Far East was the Protection of the Amur Tiger and
  its Habitats. The project organized and supported
  anti-poaching activities.
• WWF supported field team called Tiger that was
  staffed by members of the Primorskii Krai
  Committee on Ecology.
• WWF also supported anti-poaching teams in the
  Lazo and Sikhote-Alin Zapovedniks, protected
  landscapes that are key to the tiger's survival.
  The program to protect this rare and endangered
  wild animal has been a WWF-Russia priority since
  1994.

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Resources Fighting for Tigers http//www.bornfree
usa.org/ Donate to Save The Tiger Fund
EIATigers Campaign What Can I Do? Big Cat
Rescue http//vostokmedia.com/palm.php
We hope that we contributed to your knowledge
about tigers and your understanding of the
problem Lepeshkin Timophey and Vasiliev
Dmitrey under the guidness of Nekrasova
Tatyana Mikhilovna school 1 Komsomolsk-na-Amure 20
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