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Тигр в Приморье вел себя как домашний зверь, курсируя между автомобилями! Его усыпили и отловили, попутно объявив: что он, дескать, инфицирован некой болезнью. Хотя внешне зверь без признаков болезни, истощения и агрессивности.
Видео:   http://kiowa-mike.livejournal.com/800548.html

Дисскусию о размерах тигров и львов можно почитать по ссылке!   http://bbs.uua.cn/thread-84327-8-1.html

Artem :

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Такая расцветка бывает

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кстати, про расцветку тигров . есть вот такие тигры. не знаю,говорили на эту теиу до этого .
Это не совсем тигры, это смесь тигра и льва, легче тигролев,тиглон,тигрон,тайгон и лигр. их чаще всего можно встретить в цирках или в зоопарках. у них есть разделение. Смесь самца льва и самки тигра,  ОЧЕНЬ большие зовуться лиграми. Те,что поменьше и даже карлики - тигрольвы.
Если посмотреть на фото, где  лигр с людьми, то они ОЧЕНЬ большие.   Простите,что ссылками,но так будет лучше.
Это лигр - Panthera leogris
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А как вам такая няка,не знаю лигр или тигрон, но милый - http://s005.radikal.ru/i209/1002/f9/f651a0457da8.jpg

Это тигрон( Panthera tigreo). Тигрон это помесь тигра самца и львицы самки.
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Не знаю как вам,но мне эта смесь кажется очень красивой. Однако, я не очень вижу смысла в скрещивании больших кошек.

Давайте поговорим о более серьёзном. Например о том зачем тигру нужна подкожная клетчатка? У львом такого нет, во всяком случае у них не такое обвислое брюхо, почему? И почему у азиатских львом оно более обвислое? Что за этим кроется?

Обвислость брюха не может быть обусловлено возможностью накопления жира в зимний период?
Ведь ранее Азиат и в Европе обитал!?

Так что она из себя представляет - обвислое брюхо - или что это?

Crazy Zoologist :

Давайте поговорим о более серьёзном. Например о том зачем тигру нужна подкожная клетчатка? У львом такого нет, во всяком случае у них не такое обвислое брюхо, почему? И почему у азиатских львом оно более обвислое? Что за этим кроется?

Подкожная клетчатка не может отсутствовать! А вот уровень отложения жира в подкожной жировой клетчатке может быть разным. По видимому из-за каких-то фенотипических видовых особенностей. Но как-то раньше на это внимание не обращал. Это точно закономерность, а не исключение?

Crazy Zoologist :

Не отсуствовать. Просто у тигра её больше, а подкожного жира у бенгальского и тем более малайского тигров не больше чем у льва.

Закономерность что у льва шкура не такая обвислая. У африканцев она тоже висит но не так как у азиатских львов. И помимо всего прочемго это индивидуально.

Почти уверен, что это просто такая фенотипическая, морфологическая видовая особенность. С чем это связанно, конечно интересный вопрос, думаю только на климатические условия обитания вида не спишешь. Есть какие фото для сравнения?

http://trinixy.ru/2007/03/05/tigry_5_foto.html
http://trinixy.ru/42095-kormlenie-tigro … -foto.html
Они очень сильно тигров приучили к авто и сделали из них почти домашних питомцев!

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Отредактировано Artem (01 March 2010 00:54:36)

The Tiger as Scavenger: Case Histories and Deduced
Recommendations
Introduction
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is an endangered
species on the brink of extinction. Fragile tiger
populations require effective management methods
to ensure their survival. It is high time to utilize all
opportunities for saving wild tigers and for
mitigating tiger-human conflicts.
It is still a common belief that tigers in the wild will
eat only creatures that they kill themselves. The
first part of this paper gives a review of case
histories of scavenging tigers to disprove that false
opinion. This knowledge makes the management
of tigers in the wild easier with the possibility of a
carcass-baiting tool and enables to hinder poachers
from using the same.
The second part of this paper draws attention to
related aspects of the man-eating problem. This
might be useful for better understanding and
further discussions of the matter.
Case histories: tigers scavenging animal
carcasses
Hamilton (1873) from South India: “The common
idea that tigers will only eat animals killed by
themselves is a complete fallacy (…) they always
prefer putrid to fresh meat. I have often killed a
bison and left him untouched in the forest; as long
as he was fresh, the tigers, although they would
come and walk around him, would never touch
him. The moment the bison became putrid the
tigers would gorge themselves and never leave
off eating, if undisturbed, until the whole was
consumed. (…) Sometimes I have been unable
to go and watch; and when I have gone I have
found the place trampled down with foot-prints
of the tigers, and nothing but the bones of the
bison left.”
‘Young Nimrod’ (1873): “I have to say that I have
occasionally stumbled across the carcasses of
deer in the Sunderbun forest, which I had two or
three days before mortally wounded, half eaten
up by tigers, as evidenced by the bullet-marks on
the dead bodies, and the foot-prints of tigers round
about the spot.”
Jerdon (1874): “I met with one instance of a
tigress and two full-grown cubs devouring a
bullock that had died of disease (...) I followed
their track, and found she had dragged the dead
animal into the centre of a cornfield, and picked
the bones quite clean.” Jerdon also mentioned a
letter of a sportsman in Khandeish, who had
injured or killed a tigress. In the next morning he
returned to the place and discovered that she had
been dragged into a ravine by another tiger and a
half of the carcass was devoured.
‘Hawkeye’ (1876): “In one district of South India
tigers never ate carcasses of shot gaur, until they
were approaching putrefaction. (…) A pair of
tigers eating the putrid remains of a rhino killed a
week earlier, stressed the fact that tigers allow
game to lie until soft and decomposed.”
Atkinson (1884): “The tiger does not confine itself
to animals killed by it in the chase. It has been
known to eat the putrid carcass of a buffalo that
had died by accident, and in the hills [North-West
Provinces of India] the common bait for the deadfall
trap is a dead sheep or goat.”
Baker (1887) returning to a dead rhinoceros shot
the day before in the Sundarbans: “The ground
round this carcass was thickly marked with the
footprints of tigers, several having visited it since
noon of the day before; but beyond attacking the
softer parts they had not yet made much
impression.”
Inverarity (1888) in his article on tigers: “They
will also eat the dead carcass of an animal they
have not themselves killed. Mr. Raitt, of the
Bombay Uncovenanted Service, was killed by a
tiger that the evening before had fed on the body
of a bear that Raitt had shot.”
Lydekker (1900): “In the condition of their food
tigers are by no means particular, and they have
on several occasions been observed gorging
themselves on putrid carcasses, from which the
vultures have been driven away by their
appearance on the scene.”
Dunbar-Brander (1923): “Besides killing for
themselves, tigers will eat any fresh carcass they
may happen across, and I have even known them
eat animals which were absolutely putrid. I have
already mentioned six tigers on a putrid chital stag.
This animal was one I had wounded and lost, and
it had been lying dead in long grass for a week. I
discovered it by the smell. The men sent to fetch
the head returned in great excitement, reporting
several tigers on the carcass, and when I arrived
I found that the body was a mere shell and that
these tigers had been scooping out the inside which
consisted of smell, maggots, and putrid flesh.”
Somerville (1924) regarding tiger shooting in the
Sundarbans: “It is well-known that the tiger (…)
on making its kill, seldom eats the flesh of its victim
the very day. He (…) drags the carcass into some
secluded spot, to which he returns a few days
later to feast on the partly decomposed flesh.”
Knowing also the tiger’s weakness for the flesh
of the crocodile [called muggur by him], Somerville
proposed: “First shoot a decent-sized muggur, next
drag the body well up on to the bank, but not too
far inland, as this will excite suspicion. Select a
spot where fresh pug marks leave no doubt in your
mind as to the probability of a tiger finding it, and
then either sit up or dig yourself in and await his
arrival.”
Beginner (1927) reported from the Central
Provinces in India that herds of domestic buffaloes
are frequently taken towards Bilaspur from
Jubbulpore, Mandla and Saugor districts. “When
they are taken in such great numbers naturally a
few die on the road (…) It will not be out of place
to surmise that the tiger in question must be taking
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