Although they can adapt to almost every situation, they need their habitat — meaning they need a place to live. Firstly, the building fever that started going on in the middle of the s until now has taken its toll.
Buildings, motorways, airports, and even new cities have been built all over the habitat of Siberian tigers. All of this meant that Siberian tigers had nowhere to go, and stressed, scared and hungry, they were often killed or starved to death.
We all know what happens when a human meets an animal. The tigers that lived in the woods where new motorways have been made are now moved closer to the human population and well, no one likes to see a tiger nearby.
Their homes were destroyed and now they are wandering through territory which is often occupied by humans. We all know how the food chain works. The strong eat the weak and stay alive. Their main dishes are rabbits and deers.
There are plenty of rabbits and deers out there. Or in other words, there are, generally speaking, but not in the territory where Siberian tigers are living. Now keep in mind everything we said in the previous paragraph about people creating motorways and building in the animal habitat. It affects thousands of other animals, including rabbits and deers. They all have to escape to other places. For the tigers that stay in the woods there, this only means one thing. No more food. They start starving.
This is a big issue not just for Siberian tigers, but for other species as well, which eat other animals in the food chain. The lesser they all eat, including tigers, the lesser they live. Most experts would favor a Siberian and Bengal tiger over an African lion. So-called black tigers are due to pseudo-melanism. Pseudo-melanistic tigers have thick stripes so close together that the tawny background is barely visible between stripes.
Pseudo-melanistic tigers exist and can be seen in the wild and in zoos. Such tigers are said to be getting more common due to inbreeding. Tigers have strong muscular body. They can leap distances of over 6 m 19 feet , jump up to 5 m 16 feet vertically, carry double their bodyweight. Siberian tigers are extremely strong fighters. Skip to content. Search for:. Home » QA. They were demonstrating some real signs of distress. It had led scientists to believe that tigers were suffering from a life-threatening viral disease.
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