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Tigers of the High Himalayas
Tigers of the High Himalayas
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Tigers of the High Himalayas
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I didn´t find this guy mentioned in this thread, so here some information about Emmanuel Rondeau and his work photographing and filming tigers in Bhutan.
Quote: "Mission Tiger: Bhutan I jumped at the chance to take on WWF’s Mission Tiger: Bhutan earlier this year. If I could capture an image of a tiger using one of Bhutan’s ‘wildlife corridors’, WWF could call for greater protection in these areas."  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Endangered tiger in Bhutan © Emmanuel Rondeau Article and some video footage etc: https://blogs.wwf.org.uk/blog/wildlife/tigers/rare-tiger-bhutan/  (09-05-2019, 10:59 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: Is that picture of an Amur tiger, @Rishi? Because if it’s from high Himalayas, other than the colour of the coat, I honestly can’t tell the difference between the two. Even the tail is very thick like Amur tigers. No... See the copyright of WWF-Bhutan. Found here: They're living similar climate as Amur tigers, so you can expect them to develop physical similarities. Classic case of convergent evolution I say. But note the height to length ratio... always very short & stout, strikingly unlike Amurs. This is probably due to ease of negotiating steep slopes their habitats are made up of.
I know, it’s fascinating. Would be interesting to know if their bodies have made some evolutionary adjustments to counter the altitude and lack of oxygen plus the cold. I know that snow leopards when diverged from tigers got deep chest cavities with wide nostrils and a very good lung capacity. For tigers, who are much larger, they would need more calories than the ones in the plains, so hunt more? And everything they do would require them to expend more energy doing it and it becomes a cycle.
Tigers camera-trapped in Bhutan. Due to almost 95% forest-cover in the country they are all over the place, not just protected areas. But due to living in human-dominated landscape the overall number is less than a single Indian tiger reserve spread thinly over the whole country.
Source: WILDCRU  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author (BTW, I'm going to Bhutan on 30th December. Don't expect any tigers ofcourse, but I'll take as many photos of all the landscapes & forests as possible.)
Bhutan is gorgeous @Rishi, have a great trip.
On a side note, personally think Bhutan has more than the 100 or so tigers claimed to live there. I mean, Sunderbans has like 200, and prey density isn’t great there. Anyway, tigers of Bhutan are fascinating especially those who travel 100s of kilometres from Manas in Assam to 4000m altitude within a couple of months. Plus, most of them look like Bengal-Amur hybrids (except the coat).
Bhutanese Tiger Expert Calls For Creating New, Cross-Border Tiger Landscape.
OCTOBER 23, 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Bhutan is home to about three percent (more than100 tigers) of the total global tiger population today. The Bengal Tiger in Bhutan are found all the way from subtropical forests and flood plains adjoining Assam to cloud forests at 4,500 metres from the sea level. Head of Global Tiger Centre in Gelephu, Tshering Tempa (PhD), during the third Bhutan Lectures in Innovation Science and Society (BLISS) talk last week in Thimphu, said that Bhutan was proposing for a sanctuary for the tigers in the south Asian region. He said that the growing human population and other developmental activities threaten the long-term “persistence and viability of tigers” in the region. The East Himalayan landscape is nearly devoid of developmental pressure, he added. It stretches from the mountains of Bhutan through the forests of Arunachal in India, skirting the southern boundary of China stretching southwards to the upper basin of Irrawaddy River in Myanmar.  *This image is copyright of its original author The proposal was to refocus the conservation efforts and pay closer attention to the second largest contiguous tiger conservation landscape in the world. This landscape, according to Tshering Tempa, has not received the attention and the priority it deserves, both in terms financial commitment and scientific focus. He said, “If Bhutan is any indication of what the rest of this landscape looks like, then there is a hope because tigers continue to thrive in our mountains. From our work with collaring tigers, we are furthering our understanding of how the tigers use and navigate the landscapes,” he said. “This will help us refine our conservation strategies and ensure not only the persistence of tigers but also to conserve the fecundity of these landscapes.” If we manage to create, expand, and secure this Tigerscape, it will help protect two major river systems of the world. It will also ensure the livelihoods of more than half a billion people and store over nine billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. 
Tigers of high Himalayas,
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Camera trap images of tigers from hills & valleys of Royal Manas in Bhutan.
https://wwf.panda.org/?201187%252FCelebr...-Tiger-Day  *This image is copyright of its original author
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Tiger photographed again on 3rd Feb at Neora Valley National Park within a month of the previous camera-trapping. Apparently there's been direct sighting too by a patrolling forester on the next day at the 6th Mile area of NVNP, at an altitude of around 7,500 feet. It is just north of Lava in the Kalimpong district.
 *This image is copyright of its original author The state Forest department for the first time will take up a comprehensive census of animals at the 159.5 km² Neora Valley National Park (NVNP) on April this year, along with Gorumara & Jaldapara National Parks as well as Buxa Tiger Reserve. On the ridges of the lesser Himalayas at the tri-junction of Bengal-Sikkim-Bhutan it has four kinds of natural vegetation— tropical, sub-tropical, temperate & sub-temperate—from the lower to the upper reaches of the park.
Bhutan tigers,
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 (03-01-2020, 01:07 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: Dibang tiger the case of Ipra and Chipi tigers from Angrim in Dibang Valley District Arunachal Pradesh has been intriguing me  *This image is copyright of its original author so i decided to do a quick search of those allegedly "new bengal" tigers. i found that tigers pictures from this area mostly came from Dr. Sahil Nijhawan, the same person who recorded six coat colours of the Asiatic golden cat in Dibang Valley  *This image is copyright of its original author so here are some tigers pictures from arunachal pradesh that i've found so far, mostly from Dr. Sahil and his colleagues  *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  *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 even though genetic analysis reveals they are still calsified as bengal tigers, somehow i think they looks slightly different from other bengals, including from terai tigers. To me some of them looks like bengals with some indochinese feature on it. what do you think guys? |
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