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(12-07-2018, 01:19 PM)Wolverine Wrote: Here the question is: what happens with the skulls of Amur tigers dying from old age in the forest, do forest rangers and scientists collect them or leave them in the forest. If they collect them where these skulls go and are they stored somewhere. Its not necessary Peter that all tiger skulls go in museums of the big cities or institutes of RAS, its possible that majority of the skulls (if they are collected at all) are stored in some storehouses or rooms inside the Sihote Alin state reserve or Lazovsky state reserve or in the local museums attached to the particular national parks or reserves. I think that your idea of measuring dozens and dozens of tiger skulls is a bit ambitious, its quite possible that in no one particular place are stored more than 4-5 skulls. So here Olga could give a definitive answer by asking local forest rangers.
Do you know that it is impossible to find Amur tigers remains if they die on natural causes? Udeghe people even have the legend about mysterious mountain Sangeli on Bikin river where old tigers go to die.
As for killed tigers remains - I know that scientists collect them to educate. I still can't catch the scientists through the phone. I'll proceed to try on Monday, also we'll be in leopard photography tour since Tuesday and I'll able to visit Leopard Land scientist department, let you know about the results.
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