2. Reality of Tigers
Only a year ago there were calculated to be 24 tigers in the
park, one of India’s 27 tiger reserves.
A century ago, India had about 40,000 tigers. By 1988, as a
result of extensive hunting and poaching, there were just
4,500 left. Now the true figure is probably 1,000.
Panna, located near Khajuraho, is the second reserve in
which there are now no tigers. Sariska National Park in
Rajasthan lost all its tigers in 2005.
The decline is said to be largely down to poachers serving
an insatiable demand for tiger bones, claws and skin in
China, Taiwan and Korea, where they are used in
traditional medicine. Other factors include electric fences
erected by farmers, illegal logging and fights between male
tigers over diminishing territory.
3. Just 1,000 tigers left in India
The Indian government admitted that nobody has
seen a Royal Bengal tiger in Panna National Park
since January.
4. Types of tigers
Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger, or Royal Bengal tiger , equals a race
of tiger mainly obtained in India and Bangladesh.
They are also obtained in regions of Nepal, Bhutan,
Myanmar and south Tibet. The Bengal tiger is among
the biggest and the just about a lot of of the tiger race,
with approximately 1,411 wild tigers being accounted
by the Government of India's National Tiger
Conservation Authority.
5. Bali tiger
The Bali tiger , harimau Bali in Indonesian, or
adverted to as samong in primitive Balinese
words, is an nonexistent race of tiger ascertained
entirely on the little Indonesian island of Bali.
This was among ternary race of tiger discovered
in Indonesia along with the Javan tiger (as well
perhaps extinct) and Sumatran tiger (critically
jeopardized
6. Indochinese tiger
Indochinese tiger
The Indochinese tiger or Corbett's tiger comprises a
race of tiger discovered in Cambodia, Laos, Burma,
Thailand, and Vietnam. Tigers in peninsular Malaysia,
at one time categorised as Indochinese, have lately
been reclassified as a separated race, Malayan tiger
Panthera tigris jacksoni. The "Corbett's" name roots
from the scientific bring up of the subspecies,
Panthera tigris corbetti, which successively is called in
respect of Jim Corbett.
7. Malayan tiger
• The Malayan tiger , discovered in the southern and
primal parts of the Malay Peninsula, until 2004 wasn't
viewed a race in its own right. The newly categorization
happened after a study by Luo S-J et al. from the
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, part of the U.S.
National Cancer Institute.
8. White tigers
There's a familiar mutation that develops the White
Tigers, technically called chinchilla albinistic,a
creature which is scarce in the wild, but widely covered
in zoos due to its fame. Upbringing of White Tigers
will frequently contribute to inbreeding . Numerous
openings have come about in white and orange tiger
pairing in an effort to rectify the issue, often mix race
in the way. Such inbreeding has resulted to white
tigers bearing a heavier odds of being born with
physical flaws, such as cleft palates and scoliosis
(curvature of the spine). Moreover, white tigers are
inclined in acquiring crossed eyes . Even evidently
sound white tigers mostly don't live as long as their
orange counterparts
9. Sumatran tiger
Sumatran tiger
Male Sumatran tigers average 204 cm long from head
to tail and weigh approximately 136 kg. Females average
out 198 cm long and count approximately 91 kg. Its
stripes are thinner than remaining race of tigers'
stripes, and it has a more whiskered and manned show,
particularly the males. Its slim size makes it lighter to
move through heavy rainforests. It has netting between
The Sumatran tiger is the youngest of all existing tiger
race. its toes that, when spread, makes Sumatran tigers
very fast swimmers. It's been acknowledged to drive
hooved prey into the water, particularly if the prey beast
is a slow swimmer.
10. Today's positiion of tiger
The illegal poaching of tigers for their
parts and destruction of their habitat
through destruction and buffer zone
encroachment are the biggest
challenges faced in the fight to save
our Tigers.
