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It’s Sierra again from Jungle Cat World and she has lost interest in me for a moment to investigate the goings-on in a distant enclosure.
Tigers are keen spotters and often you will find them in zoos fixed on some distant object or animal that attracts their interest. They use their binocular-like vision in the wild to hunt. In particular, they have a higher concentration of light-detecting cells or “rods” in a horizontal band across their eye which allows them to spot the slightest of lateral movement. This is especially important at night, which is the most favourable and frequently used time of day to go hunting for tigers. The only down side is that they have fewer “cone” cells, which are involved in detecting color and so their color vision is limited. Overall, a tiger’s eye is a perfectly suited for its lifestyle and is an extremely valuable hunting tool!
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
Tigers are keen spotters and often you will find them in zoos fixed on some distant object or animal that attracts their interest. They use their binocular-like vision in the wild to hunt. In particular, they have a higher concentration of light-detecting cells or “rods” in a horizontal band across their eye which allows them to spot the slightest of lateral movement. This is especially important at night, which is the most favourable and frequently used time of day to go hunting for tigers. The only down side is that they have fewer “cone” cells, which are involved in detecting color and so their color vision is limited. Overall, a tiger’s eye is a perfectly suited for its lifestyle and is an extremely valuable hunting tool!
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Tiger
Size 600 x 799px
File Size 553.1 kB
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