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

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(11-30-2017, 01:31 PM)peter Wrote: [quote pid='47692' dateline='1511908517']
My first goal is to measure and photograph skulls of wild Amur tigers (all) and those of black and brown bears and a number of wild boars. I need 2-3 weeks for the museum and will add a trip to Batalov's place after I'm done with the skulls.

I think it's gonna work in other way around - first you should make safari trip in Batalov's entity and than try to enter the museums. First I think you should try to get closer to Batalov, to make him happy with bying a travel package with his company, when during your trip you make friendly relations with him, during the lunch or dinner in the forest bungalow you could ask him: "Mr Batalov, do you have any idea how I can enter Chabarovsk Museum of Natural History?" If you do this by telephone you could accept rightway refusal. Batalov is obviously a big businessman, biologist, film producer - such a men usually have a lot of influence and links in the society, for sure some of his employes could have friends in the museums. In Russia more than any other country good links are very important, more important than the law itself. Of course there is no guarantee, I cant be sure, I am giving you just an idea Peter. Maybe Batalov will not help you, he could say "no". But as I understand you don't have other options. You for example could buy an airplane ticket to Khabarovsk with open not-fixed return - first you make visit to Ussuri forest for a week trying to see a wild tiger, if Batalov say "yes" than you go to museum for a week or two more making measurments, if he say "no" than you directly return to Amsterdam. You do not lose nothing - at least you will see the wild Ussuri forest and "smell" the presence of wild Amur tigers. I am giving you just an idea how to spend an wonderful vacation in the nature.

If you succeed to enter a museum think the measurments especially of wild boars are quite interesting. Ussuri wild boar - Sus scrofa ussuricus is often mentioned as the largest subspecie of wild boar reaching 350 kg weight, but this is just a general statement. I have seen very few detailed measurments, few detailed data of this animal. Many biologists and exactly hunters from the former USSR say that hunting trophies of wild boars from Eastern Europe and more especially the Carpathian wild boars from Romania, Belarus, Balkans - S.s.atilla - are actually larger than the trophies from Ussuriland. So if you succeed to prove with detailed measurments and data that Ussuri boar is larger than Carpathian or opposite - if you prove that is smaller than Carpathian that will be great. Reply