The eternal wanderer, or Where does the tiger live?

First, let's figure out where the tiger lives. It is generally accepted that the homeland of these wild cats is Southeast Asia. From there, they settled closer to the north, reaching the Ussuri Territory and the Amur Region. But their habitat is not limited to the Far East alone. Once upon a time, tigers lived throughout India, on the islands of Sumatra, Bali, Java and the islands of the Malay archipelago.

In the narrow sense, the question of where the tiger lives is difficult to answer. The fact is that this is an eternal wanderer. Even if he marks the territory, it will not be long, after a couple of weeks he will go to other places where he can profit.

Hunt for prey

The predator goes hunting in the evening, only in rare cases, if the beast is terribly hungry, he hunts in the afternoon. Due to its peculiar color, the tiger seems very bright, but in fact, an orange with black stripes is a very good disguise for hunting in “field conditions”. His favorite method of attacking his victim is a lightning-fast jump from a dense bush. It was here that the predator comes in handy protective color, disguising it. The tiger creeps almost up close and jerkily rushes to the victim, biting into its throat or breaking its neck with a powerful blow of its paw. Of course, the victim has no chance of surviving. With one deadly paw strike, a predator easily kills a bear or a horse! Horror is easy! Interestingly, during the attack, he does not make any sounds.

It should be added that the tiger is a lone hunter, and even if he hunts with a female, this “cooperation” lasts no more than a week, after which they diverge from the world.

Tiger menu

Generally it is an omnivorous animal. If the predator is very hungry, then it is ready to literally gobble up everything that gets in its way, but its final diet depends on where the tiger lives. Its victims are domestic cows, wild bulls, deer, buffalo, bears, wild boars, lynxes, monkeys, crabs, wolves, various fish, snakes, mice, frogs and even locusts with grass. In the "hungry year" the tiger can eat land and tree bark. There have been cases when crocodiles, pythons and leopards became victims of the tiger! If a predator is completely starving, then his own brethren become his prey. Very rarely, but nevertheless there are also cannibal tigers!

Progeny

Tiger cubs are born completely helpless and blind (however, like all cats). Not later than 11 months later they are already capable of independent hunting. For almost two years, the cubs live with their mother, after which they leave the "parental home", becoming single hunters. Therefore, if you meet three or four tigers next to the killed victim, do not think that they violated their own principles and began to hunt in packs. This is just a mother and her baby tigers. The photo is proof of that.

The life expectancy of tigers is from 15 to 20 years. Today it is an endangered animal species. They are taken under protection around the world. For example, the Siberian tiger, better known as the Amur tiger, is listed in the Red Book, since it is on the verge of extinction. Unfortunately, there are no longer Siberian (Amur) tigers outside the territory of the Russian Federation - in the wild -. Note that in India these animals were only two thousand individuals, while more recently there were more than twenty thousand. In Sumatra, Bali and Java, due to hunting for a predator, they completely disappeared.

Fortunately, today there are still places where the tiger lives. But their habitat is shrinking as the striped predators die out ... Will it be possible to save tigers from extinction altogether - a big question. Everything is in our hands!