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John Varty & Tiger Canyon
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  (08-23-2018, 10:06 AM)Spalea Wrote: Frankly, a tiger in the African savannah stays a beautiful animal. Really fine photos ! Truth be told, Caspian tigers did live in places very similar to Tiger Canyons, scrub & swamps.  *This image is copyright of its original author John Varty's tiger would have made good replacements for Caspian tigers for the Kazakhstan rewilding, especially now that the subspecies distinction can be given lesser weightage for locally extinct populations. It's better to be Bengal-Siberian hybrid to survive in hot & dry landscape of central Asia. But i'm doubtful whether these tigers are actually wilded. Captive Bengal tigers often have flabby belly fat like that... & this place should be extremely unforgiving to tigers. (07-15-2018, 04:24 AM)Rage2277 Wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if he feeds them live bait.
big cats in general are pretty adaptable..i can see siberians doing well in hotter climates and lions like wise in colder areas like the himalayas as long as there's suitable prey in sustainable numbers they'll be fine
 It is possible @Rage2277 that both cats fit well in these environments. Lions inhabit extreme climates. In the Kaokoland / Damaraland Namibian the temperatures alternate significantly between day and night, as well as in their old tracks in the Sahel and the edges of the Sahara. At Ennedi Plateau the last lions were shot in the 1930s. The recently disappeared Atlas lions tolerated very cold temperatures and snowy environments. The extinct "Spelaea" cats were notorious inhabitants of the glacial extremes. There are no records of modern lions arriving near the Himalayas. Already the tigers entered "at its borders" in Bhutan at more than 4,000m. In India the highest elevation record was recorded in Askot, Uttarakhand (3,274m). let us also remember that tigers inhabited, not long ago, the extensive steppes of Mongolia. Usually when cats try to live in remote ranges of their environment, the conditioning factor is related to anthropogenic problems and not due to better survival conditions. Not specific to felines, a large number of animals with diurnal habits are becoming nocturnal in order to avoid contact with humans, increasing their chances of survival. Understanding the adaptability of felines is a process still under construction. See our most radical feline, the fantastic snow leopard.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...bbc-bhutan Who knows the perception of JV was correct from the beginning of his project, when he used hybrids (Bengal x Siberian) to compose his squad. If the IUCN formalizes this new nomenclature, it is not likely, but it is possible that in the next 10 to 20 years some of your tigers will be asked for reintroductions.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author A king with his Queen. Tiger Khumba was sitting on his throne and his Queen Tigress Oria came to join him and overlook their kingdom. Tiger Khumba fathered Tigress Oria's first kitter born in October 2017.Photos taken by Tiger Canyon guide Chantelle de Bruin Tiger Canyon
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Tigress Panna recently killed a blue wildebeest which she dragged into the nearby greens to protect from other predators. Her two more confident cubs, Pabla and Nikhil, came first to eat, gazing around bloody-mouthed as they tore from the rump and other soft tissue in order to break the carcass open. The third cub, Corbet Jr, approached the feast cautiously with his characteristic flashing eyes, assessed the situation, and retreated. He later returned and began to tear from the massive bull which weighs around 200 kg. Video credit: Chantelle de Bruin, Tiger Canyon WRITTEN BY NAOMI ROEBERT ON 11 AUGUST 2018. Interaction between TiBo, Bird cubs and food: The white tigress of Tiger Canyon (TiBo) produced a second litter of cubs at the end of November in 2017. This litter consists of only one normal coloured cub and two white coloured cubs. Often in each litter you find a very shy cub that isn’t seen very often, a very bold cub that is usually a “mommy’s boy” and has no problem posing for photos, and a third cub that seems to contain aspects of both. As the cubs develop we're able to observe them practice their stalking, ambushing, hunting and fighting techniques on each other and even on their parents. On the 28th of June 2018, guests and I witnessed how the7-month-old cubs used these techniques to wrangle food away from their mother. Tigress TiBo had made a kill but was not up to sharing it with her cubs, who, as you can imagine were quite hungry. So the cubs devised a cunning strategy in order to steal the food from her. There could be a number of reasons why TiBo was unwilling to share the kill with her cubs – she could have been drained from the hunt and seeking sustenance for the next hunt, or she could have been attempting to teach the cubs the skills needed to claim a kill. Tigress TiBo took the kill to one of her favourite spots under a tree which provides protection for her (and the cubs) to eat it in peace. The first part of the cubs' strategy was to moan and cry in order to indicate that they were hungry. This attempt failed, the second step involved two of the cubs surrounding the tigress in order to pull her focus off the kill (which also prevents her from eating too much of it) while a third cub inched closer towards her – this was the boldest cub and he soon received a battering from TiBo. He retreated temporarily but quickly devised a new approach, edging his way closer to her while the other two tried to regain ground (one behind her and the other around the side of her). As the cubs moved slowly closer to mom, she became more aggressive, more protective (still hardly eating anything), so that one cub decided it would be better to hang back and watch for a while. Suddenly TiBo struck out at the cubs, which immediately lay on their sides to show submission, ending up nose-to-nose with mom growling and baring her teeth. The cubs mimicked her every growl and snarl (another aspect of their behavioural development). Things went quiet for a while as TiBo pondered her next move before pouncing on them to chase them away, unsuccessfuly! She then grabbed the kill and tried to make a run for it but the cubs were too fast. The two white cubs clambered onto her, taking turns to try to grab the warthog while the orange cub received a lashing from mom. TiBo frantically tried to protect her kill as all three cubs entered into a tug-of-war with her. She knew she was about to lose her kill and tugged desperately at it but the cubs refused to let go. All four held onto the kill, strategizing their next move. Suddenly TiBo jumped up and tried to pull the meat away but the boldest cub wouldn't let go. He held on tight and the tigress's only remaining move was to sit on him: the cub under her went still… while the other two cubs watched, waiting, too scared to move in. A few seconds went by (which felt like a lifetime) and then the cub under TiBo pulled as hard as he could and the tug-of-war started again. This time the cubs won!    *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 John Varty A mother tiger (Bengal×Siberian hybrid) Julie from Canada captive zoo and savanna captive born lioness raised by Julie hunted together in Tiger canyons private reserve (approx 80 km^2 sheep farm land) set up in 2000, based on Tiger Rewilding or rehabilitation project by John Varty (he is tiger man in Africa like Kevin Richardson who is lion man in Africa) and Dave Salmoni near Philippolis,free state province, Karoo in South Africa. It has no conservative importance as they don't have pure genetics. A wild population survived in this area in controlled environment with separated African cheetah,African Leopard and many animals native to Africa like blue wildebeest,plains zebra, many antelopes,cape hare,etc…., John Varty dream is to see all the 4 big cats (cheetah,leopard, lion and tiger like in historical India and other parts of Asia where all of them co-existed together) in one environment. |
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