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Amur Tigers
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Amur Tiger Cubs measured and weighed
TigerTime - Save the Tiger Paws for thought - sizing the tigers before they set off for a life in the wild  *This image is copyright of its original author Vital statistics are gathered from the cubs before they are returned to their home in the wild  *This image is copyright of its original author In the balance - a rare Amur tiger cub is weighed before his release back into the wild in the Russian far east  *This image is copyright of its original author SAVE the AMUR TIGER News about Amur Tigress...Philippa  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Last weekend Philippa the tigress passed a clinical examination To control the state of health of the young tigress, she was subjected to a scheduled veterinary examination. Philya was weighed, measured, and her blood samples were taken for the laboratory tests. At her 9–10 months of age, Filya weighs 60 kg, which indicates a very good body condition! The state of her teeth was also examined: now she is at the final stage of replacement of milk teeth by permanent ones. Only the canines still remain unchanged. Philippa develops normally according to her age. After examination, the tigress was provided with a new enclosure, earlier occupied by the leopard Leo80M. This enclosure is of more complex structure, with various elements of habitat enrichment; its main area is connected with a larger hunting enclosure. Now Philya’s diet consists mostly of live food that she can catch herself in the spacious hunting enclosure. 
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Prowling Amur tiger nabbed near Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok Society & Culture October 27, 13:55 UTC+3 The Amur tiger is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, at present only 480-540 members of this species live in the wild © Yuri Smityuk/TASS  *This image is copyright of its original author VLADIVOSTOK, October 27. /TASS/. A full-grown Amur tiger has been caught near the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok and sent for rehabilitation to a special center. The large feline predator is a male weighing 170 kilograms (roughly 375 pounds) that had killed a cow in the town of Artyom about 40 kilometers from Vladivostok, the Amur Tiger Center’s press service reported. "On the morning of October 26, a resident of the Artyom town suburb reported to the police that a tiger had killed a cow… That same evening a response team from the hunting supervision agency spotted the tiger using an infrared camera. The predator was immediately caught and brought to the Tiger Rehabilitation and Reintroduction Center in the Alekseyevka settlement," the Amur Tiger Center said. The tiger will stay at the rehabilitation center while experts determine his future. He may be released into the wild in an area far from human settlements but inhabited with enough ungulates (or hoofed mammals). Ecologists had a similar experience last year, when a tiger named Uporny (or ‘Persistent’) who had been attacking dogs in the Khabarovsk region, was caught and later released into a distant area. Only a few days ago, another male tiger was caught 20 kilometers away from Vladivostok. The predator not only walked near the city but also entered the city territory. He, too, has been sent to the rehabilitation center. It is a young male tiger weighing 140 kilograms (roughly 308 pounds) who is likely to be released into the wild. Several weeks ago reports of a tiger were received from Vladivostok’s neighboring town of Artyom but the search ended without any success. The Amur tiger is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. According to the last year’s data, at present only 480-540 members of this species live in the wild, with 90% of them inhabiting Russia’s Far Eastern Primorye and Khabarovsk regions.
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Second tiger caught on the loose near Vladivostok after killing a cow By The Siberian Times reporter 28 October 2016 Concerns that the wild predators are coming closer to cities and settlements in Russian Far East. The animal caught at Artem is also a male, in this case four or five years old and weighing 173 kilograms. Picture: Amur Tiger Centre  *This image is copyright of its original author The Amur big cat was caught close to the city of Artem, 47 kilometres north of Vladivostok, after helping itself to a cow on a farm. Earlier a tiger was snared at Shamora, some 31 km from downtown Vladivostok following reports that one tiger or more had been spotted in the Pacific capital's environs. Residents especially parents have expressed fears for safety over the encroachment of the predators and for now it cannot be ruled out that other animals have ventured into the region's most populous area. The Amur big cat was caught close to the city of Artem, 47 kilometres north of Vladivostok, after helping itself to a cow on a farm. Pictures: The Siberian Times, Amur Tiger Centre  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author The animal caught at Artem is also a male, in this case four or five years old and weighing 173 kilograms. It is likely to be returned to the wild, far from urban areas, in Primorsky region. It was caught after thermal imaging was used to locate it following the cow attack. The animal is now in a rehabilitation centre in the village of Alekseyevka, where the first tiger is also kept. It is likely to be returned to the wild, far from urban areas, in Primorsky region. Pictures: Amur Tiger Centre  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Experts say that heavy rains and flooding has led to a shortage of food in the forests for the cats. Amur or Siberian tiger numbers are recovering after the species became seriously endangered. There still remain hundreds rather than thousands living in the wild.
From National park "Land of the Leopard":
"The length of the canines of adult Amur tigers reaches 7.5 cm. And the snow "bed" for them is clearly not a problem, because it is the most northerly of the subspecies of tiger. Meet Amur tiger T 37M, photo by camera trap on the “Land of the Leopard” National Park."  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
News about Amur Tigress...Philippa
*This image is copyright of its original author Last weekend Philippa the tigress passed a clinical examination To control the state of health of the young tigress, she was subjected to a scheduled veterinary examination. Philya was weighed, measured, and her blood samples were taken for the laboratory tests. At her 9–10 months of age, Filya weighs 60 kg, which indicates a very good body condition! The state of her teeth was also examined: now she is at the final stage of replacement of milk teeth by permanent ones. Only the canines still remain unchanged. Philippa develops normally according to her age. After examination, the tigress was provided with a new enclosure, earlier occupied by the leopard Leo80M. This enclosure is of more complex structure, with various elements of habitat enrichment; its main area is connected with a larger hunting enclosure. Now Philya’s diet consists mostly of live food that she can catch herself in the spacious hunting enclosure. *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Russian Tiger Update: Good news, with the help of the team funded by TigerTime the Amur tiger spotted near Vladivostok this week has been safely captured. It is now in the Centre for rehabilitation and reintroduction of tigers and other rare animals (pro “Center TIGER”) in the village of Alekseevka. The TigerTime funded team assisted the specialists of Primorsky Hunting Management Department to find the tiger by providing a quadcopter. Unfortunately, rich foliage made it impossible to spot the tiger from the air but the use of thermal observation devices soon helped locate the big cat. Weighing about 120 kg, the tiger is approximately 1.5 years. Experts are now trying to find out whether it is a wild or released captive tiger and why it has roamed so close to the city. We'll bring you more news about the tiger as soon as we have it. Photo: archive / Mark Carwardine  *This image is copyright of its original author
On October 30, Primorsky Province Hunting Department with the support of the Amur Tiger Center and WWF released an adult Amur tiger back into the wild with a fitted radio collar.
Early in the morning of October 30, a tiger caught and placed in the rehab center four days previously*, was sedated, put into a transportation cage, and three hours later released in the Tigrovoye Hunting Lease on the border with Ussuriisky Nature Reserve. “The decision on the place of the tiger release was made jointly by nature conservation organizations. To choose this place correctly, several factors were considered like the availability of enough wild ungulates to feed on, the farness from the human settlements, and the lack of people on the moment of its release. So, we have picked the Tigrovoye Hunting Lease as a place for the tiger release. We are keen to know whether the tiger will try to come back to its former site or will choose a new one,” comments Pavel Fomenko, head of rare species conservation program at WWF Russia Amur branch. Translocation technique is widely used in the world when dealing with conflict wild animals. A tiger home range also witnessed a number of translocations when tigers successfully settled down in new territories Timely resolution of conflicts is a guarantee of a peaceful coexistence of tigers and humans. At the moment, in Primorsky and Khabarovsky Provinces an effective system of mitigating conflicts between large predators and humans is being developed. Sedating and transportation procedures were overseen by the professional veterinaries of the Primorskaya State Agriculture Academy. For four days the tiger was kept in the enclosure in the Rehab center near the village of Alekseevka (Primorsky Province). Watch the video: https://youtu.be/PwpzHFssdhg PS. “Data received from GPS collar on 31 October confirmed that the tiger has moved 5 kilometers up north from the point of release, in an opposite direction, away from the densely populated territories, such as Artyom and Vladivostok cities. It means that he successfully recovered sedation, with no harm to his health”, comments Alexey Kostyria, senior coordinator of rare species conservation program at WWF Russia Amur branch.
From ПРОО "Центр "Тигр" / PRNCO "Tiger Center":
Tigress Svetlaya was released in the reserve "Crane" in June 2014. In 2015, to her surprise she met a tiger from her past, it was tiger Borya! Tiger Borya had travelled more than 500 km to find his lost love (up to this point, the two had only met while at the Rehabilitation Center / ПРОО "Центр "Тигр" / PRNCO "Tiger Center")! Tigers Borya and Svetlaya once again reunited, formed a couple. This history making event, recorded for the first time in the world!  *This image is copyright of its original author A Tigers Lost Love Tiger Borya, upon release in a reserve in the Amur region made an extraordinarily long journey to find his lost love, Tigress Svetlaya. His final destination, the reserve "Crane" in the JAR (Jewish Autonomous Region).  *This image is copyright of its original author Upon arrival, Borya rubs his muzzle/snout against the trees, at the same time marking the trees with his scent.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Amur 's of the Russian Far East / Дикие Кошки Дальнего Востока
How quickly they grow.  *This image is copyright of its original author ;) Siberian (Amur) Tiger  *This image is copyright of its original author ? T 22MPhoto 1: he is now 1 1/2 years old. Photo 2: a kitten at 6 months old. The difference between the images - just one year. Images from camera traps at the National Park, "Earth leopard".  *This image is copyright of its original author This is great news! (y) (Pardon the translation) ... *This image is copyright of its original author ;)Northeast Tiger in Heilongjiang Laoye Ling, the most active period since monitoring began! Harbin, November 22 - Heilongjiang Provincial Forest Industry Administration announced on the 22nd, 2016 is Heilongjiang Laoye Ling tiger National Nature Reserve since its own monitoring records, the wild Siberian tiger, northeast Leopard appears the highest frequency of the year, which marked the region's wild tiger, northeast leopard into the most active period. April 15, April 29, May 11, May 17, August 24, the Siberian tiger appeared five times; early February to the end of October, the northeast leopard appeared seventeen times. Finishing infrared camera memory card statistics out of this set of data, so that the Heilongjiang Laoye Ling Northeast Tiger National Nature Reserve Authority of all lifted. Heilongjiang Laoye Ling Northeast Tigers National Nature Reserve is located in the forest industry in Heilongjiang Province Suiyang Forestry Administration Shi industry area, the eastern coastal border area with the Russian National Park "Earth leopard" / "Leopard Land" adjacent to the south and Jilin Province Hunchun, Wang Qing northeast Tiger National Nature Reserve to connect, and the Siberian tiger, leopard "natural bond." With the "people retreat into the tiger," there is no chainsaw, locomotive roar of the forest into a wild animal paradise, wild boar, deer, roe deer and other large breeding, in the top of the food chain tiger, leopard basic survival conditions to protect. Over the past five years, Heilongjiang Laoye Ling tiger tiger National Nature Reserve has been camera trap shooting the Siberian Tiger 20 times, the northeast leopard 33 times, collecting Tiger and Leopard footprints, feces and other related information more than 30 times. (y) And the rare wild animals such as the northeast leopard, the northeast leopard and other rare animals won the world's common concern, the protected area and the World Wildlife Fund to maintain long-term cooperation with the Russian leopard to the national park, Hunchun, Wang Qing, Dongting Bird Castle protected areas jointly held the Sino- Cross-border protected areas network seminar, reached a data resource sharing cooperation protection intention. At present, the Suiyang Forestry Bureau has been "the hometown of Chinese tigers", "China's northeast leopard town" award. Laoye Ling Siberian Tiger National Nature Reserve recently signed with the World Wildlife Fund anti-poaching pilot projects, and strive to the end of April 2017 project to achieve regional wildlife protection "zero hunting sets" channel system and the "zero Poaching "target, the relevant experience to other wild tiger distribution area to promote. http://news.jxnews.com.cn/system/2016/11/22/015409847.shtml  *This image is copyright of its original author Kurt Gorobeyko reports that Cinderella have lapsed collar! Anchorage designed to self destruct in year hold more than 3 years. That's the case, when the quality of it could be worse  *This image is copyright of its original author :).Kittens seen in early October, on the track birobidzhan - kukan. After 3 years from release into Bastak reserve Cinderella finally lost her GPS collar. her kittens were seen in early October on the route Birobidzhan - Kukan.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park.
We found deer tracks on the beach covered with tiger pug-marks. It looked like the tiger had pounced on the deer. Their tracks led to a spot where the sand had been churned up during the struggle. The tiger had hidden on the edge of the cork oak forest and caught the deer in just three tries. While the tiger pounced three times over a mere fifteen meters, the deer had managed to take only one leap. This was unusual. Such swift hunting is normally only possible when the deer is lying down to rest very close to the spot where the tiger hides in wait. But there was no evidence of the deer lying down. It had been headed for the beach, but even then, could take only one leap for its life. It had been a perfect stakeout and a clean attack. The tiger had demonstrated cunning, camouflage and agility rather than brute force. Male tigers use tremendous power when they hunt deer, boars, bears, and other large animals. But the relatively small and sensitive female tigers use a more effective weapon - trickery.
Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park
Since ancient times, the native Ussuri have referred to the strongest male in its prime as the Great King. Siberian tigers' stripes are faint and thin when they are cubs, but grow thicker and more distinct as they reach adulthood. Once they are fully grown, a vivid pattern resembles the Chinese character ( king ) appears on their foreheads and ( great ) on the scruffs of their necks. Unlike tigers in tropical regions that have stripes as thin and sharp as if they were painted on with blades, Siberian tigers have uniquely thick, simple stripes. Such patterns are pronounced on male tigers that are significantly larger than female tigers, especially on the largest and strongest male.
Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park.
Tigers are solitary animals that don't enjoy the company of other tigers, yet here was proof that a group of them had frolicked on the sandbank by this clear river. My heart beat wildly. The river lay at the center of Bloody Mary's territory, which meant there was a good chance that the tigers were Bloody Mary's third litter. They weren't cubs anymore, but nearly fully grown tigers. And then I saw something strange on the ground. Fish tails were strewn about in the grass at the edge of the sandbank. I looked closer and saw they were Manchurian trout tails. I didn't see any heads or bones. It seemed the tigers has eaten the fish that had swum out to shallow waters to lay eggs. I'd heard rumors about tigers catching and eating fish, but this was the first evidence I'd seen with my own eyes. The best time for tigers to fish is in the fall when salmon and trout travel from the sea to the rivers to lay eggs. In September and October, bears gather along rivers to catch the fish. Tigers also come down to the river during this period for the salmon and the bears, although the bears are the tigers' primary target.
Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park.
On the Dipiko mountain ridge was an unusual area where a large puddle had formed. I had found many wild boar tracks around the puddle recently. The wild boars had taken a mud bath in the puddle and then rubbed their shoulders against nearby oak trunks. Some mud traces on the trunks came all the way up to my chest. To identify an individual tiger, it's easier to first divide by gender and then into categories such as juveniles, sub-adults, and adults. Tigers under the age of one are juveniles, aged one to three are sub-adults, and over three are adults. Sub-adult tigers are roughly the same size as adult tigers, making it difficult to tell them apart just by looking at them. Sub-adults are large but not completely independent, which means they have less experience. They're also sexually inactive and mentally immature. The most important factor in telling individual tigers apart is their prints, specifically the width of the ball of their paws. This is because tigers have more highly evolved paws than other animals do. The width of the front paws is especially telling. Tiger's front paws are larger and have a greater width-to-length ratio than their hind ones. A mature tiger has an average paw width of ten and a half to thirteen centimeters. The widest, thirteen centimeters, usually belongs to the Great King in his prime. There are past records of wider paws, but hardly any paws have reached even thirteen centimeters in recent years. A mature female tiger has an average paw width of eight and a half to ten centimeters. An unofficial record shows that a female tiger paw can be up to eleven centimeters wide, but within the small population we have today, the widths hardly ever reach ten centimeters. If the front paw width is less than eight centimeters, the print definitely belongs to a juvenile, and if the width exceeds ten and a half, it's definitely an adult male. But if the measurements are anythingfrom eight and a half to ten centimeters, it could be a mature female or a sub-adult male. With these cases, we determine the sex by factoring in their stride and the length of their bodies. Because tigers' paws develope faster than their bodies, a sub-adult tiger's paws may be roughly the same as an adult's, but its steps and body length will be shorter.
Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park.
Sometimes I see the traces tigers leave by crouching gingerly in the snow. Tigers often sit in this sphinx-like position - hind legs tucked in, front paws stretched out neatly in front - right before they pounce on prey or when they are alert. The sphinx position with the tiger's hips rotated to the side is called a half-sphinx. A tiger lies in the half-sphinx position when it's resting. If there is ice in the spot where the tiger was lying, it means the snow melted from the tiger's body heat and froze again when it left; in other words, the tiger had taken a long break or a nap in that spot. We can use these traces to measure the length of a tiger's body. When measuring body lengths using traces of sphinx or half-sphinx positions, we use the length between the base of the tiger's tail and the chest. We do not include parts that can be tucked in, such as the legs or the tail, as part of the body length. If we find a trace where the tiger had lain down completely, we measure from its head to its bottom. According to 'The Terrestrial Mammals of the Far East of USSR ( 1984 )',an adult male tiger's average body length ( from head to tip of tail ) is 3 meters and its average body weight 200 kilograms. The largest ever recorded, in the 'Russian Red Book ( 1987 )', was 4.17 meters long and weighed 350 kilograms. The Bengal tigers that live in India, Nepal, or Bangladesh, on the other hand, are on average 2.5 meters long and weigh 150 kilograms. The harsh climate and environment made the Siberian tiger evolve in different ways than tigers in tropical regions. To reduce body heat loss, the Siberian tiger became larger to reduce its volume-to-surface ratio.
In my own words here, I have read of men who venture into wild places such as Montana and Wyoming, inland Alaska, or the Canadian Northwoods without a gun but with a camera to study the habits of the grizzly. It seems that most who choose to do this were once hunters who, for one reason or another chose to replace their weapon with a camera. I have to admire the courage it takes to track a grizzly without a weapon. But this man from Korea, Sooyong Park, goes into the Russian wilderness, usually alone and always without a weapon, tracking tigers where there are also black grizzlies and huge wild boars. Try to imagine.
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