B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

[Pckts]

(10-24-2014, 10:45 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote:

(10-23-2014, 11:02 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(10-23-2014, 09:25 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: I told you, radiocollaring tigers is the best form to understand the tiger in they ecological and biological form. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I hope that, with time, more tigers will be studied in this way, also in more regions. I just can imagine how much data will be arise from those future studies. We will be able to compare, reliably, the behavior of these tigers with those of Nepal and the Western Ghats. [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Let's hope that the government of Bhutan would allow radio collar some tigers in they area.
 



 

Definitely disagree here, they can easily monitor gabbar and many others without the radio collar. As well as a significant outrage in the tiger community. With photographers calling it a dog collar and being outraged they did it. Nothing they can monitor with the collar couldn't be monitored with camera traps. Very easy to monitor a tigers movement with cameras as well as all other tigers in the area, not just 1. They are also starting to ask if the collars aren't going to give away position since its very easy to access computer data and if the right poachers are able to break the firewall like what happens with hackers all over the place, whats going to stop them from using it as a tracking system to hunt the tigers?

Hopefully this ends with Gabbar and no more tigers are subject to the stress of the collar and to the unnecessary dangers it puts them in.

 


 

Thankfully, scientists and science overall, disagree with you here. Why you just leave science to scientists and experts that actually know what they are doing?
 
Tiger community in every area where tigers have been collared lived perfectly well and even thrived. Check Nepal and the Western Ghats for example. Only in Panna, where park rangers tried to destroy the studies of Dr Chundawat, ALL tigers died from poachers, not from the radiocollars.
 
Photographs are just the tip of the ice, if you want a complete "tiger science", ask to Dr Mel Sunquist, Dr Ullas Karanth, Dr Raghu Chundawat, Dr Adam Barlow, Dr Yhala, and many many others in the Indian subcontinent. Put a radiocollar to a tiger and you will unveil its TRUE secrets.
 
About the “hacking” situation, sorry to say, but that is only paranoia, again. This has not happened, it is an irrational fear. Besides, in the only attempt (yes, attempt as it was not even successful) to hack the data in Central India, experts said that what the hacker could have found were a lot of non-compressive data that could not be useful for anyone.
 
Again, the stress is very low and tigers recover very well after they captures, in fact, tigers returned to eat of the baits in the same day. Scientists are right in they work, science is served, again. [img]images/smilies/wink.gif[/img]
 

 

Thankfully not all scientist agree with this, and thats why its highly contested. Also why many are outraged because it was done with out the consesnsus of the science community and done by a select few. 
Sunquist or any other person you named who used radio collars never had access to the camera traps we have today, like its already been proven. There is nothing you get from a Radio collar that can't be obtained by camera traps, nothing. 
Enough camera traps will lead to far more discoveries, like for instance, the universal way of identifying tigers. Hence why almost all scientists and biologists use them and not all use Radio collars. 

Now about the hacking, that is a absolute plausible fear. Since ICloud has just recently been hacked, Target and Home Depot credit card #'s have been hacked, amazon and pay pal as well. Why could people not hack a tracking system if enough money was in it?
You have to weigh pro's and con's and not just blindly look at something so it backs your agenda.  Reply