ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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01-07-2018, 05:28 AM

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I was referring China is building many dams in Tibetan rivers flowing to India and South East Asia. I do know China built many dams in these areas. Many countries in South East Asia (I heard some people/politicians in India also dislike China because of many things like China is helping Pakistan) hating China and they also dislike Chinese descents in their country.

I do know hunting in Sundarbans was very difficult in 19th century. However, I do remember hunting story in Sundarbans from book.
There is one extinct bird name Pink headed duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea). The Pink headed duck was was mainly found from the Sundarbans. It believed they are extinct from hunting. I do believe hunting was not the only reason, but it is impossible to know the truth since this animal is extinct like 60 years ago.

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Then it is a good news for Sundarbans tiger. The last time I heard about them was there was only 100 tigers are remaining in Sundarbans due to poaching and people are keep entering tiger's habitat (2016). Is there any ecology research going on in Sundarbans tiger in India/Bangladesh and Himalayan tiger from Bhutan? Studying these Bengal tigers could be valuable to understand other tiger subspecies from extinct area. Example like studying the Bengal tiger in Himalayan mountains could understand some basic life of the South China tiger lived in Huangshan and Zhangjiajie mountains. Why? Because both of these areas are steep habitat.

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The Himalayan tiger from Bhutan. Looks like these Bengal tigers are well adapted in steep Himalayan mountains in Bhutan. They don't look massive and robust body like Wagdoh, Madla, and other tigers from India.

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Zhangjiajie. One of Pokémon movie was motive from Zhangjajie due to distinct and unique nature.

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Huangshan. Many of Chinese tiger in mountain drawings are based on nature of Huangshan since these mountains reminiscent as a legendary land.

It is fair that studying ecology and morphology of the Bengal tiger from Himalayan mountains in Bhutan could understand some stuffs for the other tiger subspecies lived in steep mountain areas like the Caspian tiger and South China tiger.
One question was how come these types of environments could produce a stocky and robust tiger like Zhangjiajie tiger in 1965. A tiger probably preferred flat area more than steep mountain.

Zhangjiajie tiger. He had a large skull, powerful neck and he has robust body as well

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The most interesting I heard from Sundarbans was fishermen are using otters (Smooth coated otter) to catching a fish. I think otter also warns a tiger is near boat (If otter doesn't want to catch a fish and they want to be back from boat). From that documentary I mentioned of fisherman is keep entering tiger habitat. Fishermen decided to enter tiger habitat since they couldn't find any fish. Owner of boat was worried to go deep forest because of tiger, but one fisherman was so stubborn to catching a fish. Fishermen released otters in water to catch some fishes. But otters family was refused to chase fishes since they naturally sensed (or probably saw) a large powerful predator was near fishermen and otters (same as the animals could senses tsunami, and they escape before tsunami is coming). They just wanted to be on the boats and instead of swimming in water. Fishermen gave up on fishing since otters were strongly refused to chase fishes. Apparently, there was one tiger was watching over them after fishermen took otters to boat. But that tiger just watched them and disappeared into forest.