中国即将要灭绝的老虎介绍!要求英文!.

中国即将要灭绝的老虎介绍!要求英文!.
中国即将要灭绝的老虎介绍!要求英文!
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中国即将要灭绝的老虎介绍!要求英文!.
South China Tiger
鍗庡崡铏
Conservation status
Critically endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Family:Felidae
Genus:Panthera
Species:P.tigris
Subspecies:P.t.amoyensis
Trinomial name
Panthera tigris amoyensis
(Hilzheimer,1905)
South China Tiger range
The South China Tiger or South Chinese Tiger (Chinese:鍗庡崡铏?Panthera tigris amoyensis),also known as the Chinese,Amoy,or Xiamen tiger,is a subspecies of tiger native to the forests of Southern China.The South China tiger is the third smallest and most critically endangered of the living tiger subspecies.Experts maintain that there are approximate less than 30 of these tigers left in the wild.Experts warn that the South China Tiger might become extinct within the next decade.One was recently born in a reserve in South Africa in November 2007.The first to be born outside China[1] The South China tiger is considered to be the 鈥渟tem鈥 tiger,the subspecies from which all other tigers evolved[2].The South China Tiger has been recently listed as one of the world's 10 most endangered animals.[3]
Contents [hide]
1 Physical characteristics
2 Diet
3 Habitat
4 Persecution and extinction
5 Conservation
6 Re-wilding Project in South Africa
7 Evidence of existing wild South China Tigers
8 See also
9 References
10 Other sources
11 External Links
[edit] Physical characteristics
The South China tiger is one of the smallest tiger subspecies.Male tigers measure about 2.5 m (8 ft) from head to tail and weigh about 150 kg (330 lb).Female tigers are smaller,measuring about 2.3 m (7 1/2 ft) long.They weigh approximately 110 kilograms (240 pounds).This tiger is an estimated 2-6 ft.tall.The short,broad stripes of the South China tiger are spaced far apart compared to those of Bengal and Amur tigers[4].
[edit] Diet
The South China tiger,like all other subspecies of tigers,are pure carnivores.They primarily hunt ungulates.The South China Tiger prefers prey ranging between 30-400 lbs and have been known to eat livestock like cows and goats in the past when their population was much higher.They are expert hunters and will stalk and follow their prey for hours.South China tigers have an average speed of around 35mph,faster than most of its prey species,but they do not have enough stamina to maintain their top speed for long.These big cats kill their prey with a bite to the back of its neck(usually for medium-sized prey) or use the suffocation hold on the prey's throat(this is their preferred method of killing large-sized prey).South China Tigers can feed on almost anything,from small insects to Gaurs.Many humans died from South China tiger attacks in the past and they have been known as man-eaters when their population was much higher.[5]
a South China tiger of the Save China's Tigers project with his blesbuck kill
[edit] Habitat
The South China tiger,Panthera tigris amoyensis,was formerly abundant in South China's temperate upland forests.Today its wide range has been reduced to three isolated areas in south-central China,where in small and scattered populations are said to persist along the mountainous borders between provinces.As with the black-footed ferret,one of the biggest contributing factors to the South China tigers' dwindling population is the destruction of its prey base.Two other major factors that have contributed to the tiger鈥檚 decline are poaching and population fragmentation.South China Tigers ,like other tiger subspecies,live in dense jungles.South China tigers also love spending time in water,similar to other tiger subspecies.
a male South China tiger of the Save China's Tigers project in dense grassland terrain
[edit] Persecution and extinction
Until the beginning of the 20th century,the South China tiger was distributed in many parts of southern and eastern China.In 1959,Mao Zedong,in the time of the Great Leap Forward,declared the tiger and other predators such as leopards and wolves to be pests and 鈥渆nemies of the people鈥?several 鈥渁nti-pest鈥 campaigns started[6].The tigers then were considered pests because they attacked farmers and villagers.[7]Becoming widely persecuted,their wild population of the South China Tiger fell from more than 4,000 to less than 200 by 1982[8].The Chinese government then reversed the classification of the tiger,banning hunting altogether in 1977,but this seems to have been too late.The South China Tiger has not been seen in the wild for more than 20 years.[9].Today the estimated population of the South Chinese subspecies comprises 20-30 individuals and is found only in the Chinese provinces of Guangdong,Fujian,Hunan,Jiangxi und Zhejiang.Tigers still found in south-east China belong to the Indochinese Tiger subspecies.
[edit] Conservation
Since 1990,China鈥檚 State Forestry Administration has been leading the effort to save the South China Tiger through the establishment of special[Nature Reserves for the 10-30 Chinese tigers thought to be left in the wild.A 1987 field survey by Chinese scientists reported a few tigers remaining in the Guangdong mountains bordering Hunan and Jiangxi,and another survey in 1990 noted evidence of about a dozen tigers in 11 reserves in the remote mountains of Guangdong,Hunan,and Fujian Provinces of South China.No tigers were seen.The only evidence came from anecdotal stories of former hunters.[10] China's few captive tigers are now part of a centrally registered studbook in an attempt to save this tiger from becoming the fourth tiger subspecies to become extinct in modern times.Before a studbook was established it was thought that this captive population was too small and lacking in genetic diversity for any re-population program to be successful,but since the start of the central register more and more South China Tigers have been identified in zoos across China fueling hope of the possible re-establishment of the South China Tiger in the wild.
[edit] Re-wilding Project in South Africa
a female South China Tiger of Save China's Tigers in snowThe organisation Save China's Tigers working with the Wildlife Research Centre of the State Forestry Administration of China and the Chinese Tigers South Africa Trust secured an agreement on the reintroduction of Chinese Tigers into the wild.The agreement,which was signed in Beijing on 26 November 2002,calls for the establishment of a Chinese Tiger conservation model through the creation of a Pilot Reserve in China where indigenous wildlife including the South China Tiger will be reintroduced.A number of Chinese tiger cubs will be selected from zoos in China and sent to a 300 square kilometre reserve near the town of Philippolis in South Africa where they will be taught to hunt for themselves,the offspring of the trained tigers will be released into the pilot reserves in China,while the trained tigers will continue to stay in South Africa to continue breeding.[11] A second Chinese tiger rehabilitation project is also being run in Fujian,China.[12] It is planned that in time,successfully rehabilitated South China Tigers will be released into a Pilot Reserve in China.China will conduct the work of surveying land,restoring habitat and prey with in the Pilot reserve.The first Chinese Tigers are expected to be reintroduced into the wild to coincide with the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008[13]
[edit] Evidence of existing wild South China Tigers
On 5 October 2007,a South China Tiger attacked a cow and on 13 September,a body of an Asiatic black bear killed and eaten by a South China Tiger was found,both in Zhenping County.[14]
On 11 October 2007,a tiger photograph taken by Zhenglong Zhou,a villager from Zhenping County in Ankang City,Shaanxi Province of China,was claimed to be a South China Tiger by Shaanxi Province Forestry Bureau.If true,this would be the first record since 1964 of South China Tigers in the wild in Shaanxi Province's Qinba Mountains.[15][16]
However,the photographs aroused suspicion,with many expressing doubts about the authenticity of the digital picture.[17] A member of the public,Pan Zhi Hua,discovered that the tiger poster on the wall of his home shared the same features as the tiger in Zhou's photos,including the details of the animal's stripes.The manufacturer of the poster was identified as the Yi Wei Si Poster and Packaging Company of Zhejiang province,who had published the image five years previously.[18][19] In a statement issued on November 23 2007,the Shaanxi Province Forestry Bureau said that they still "firmly believed" Wild South China tigers to exist in the province.[20]

Siberian Tiger (东北虎)
The Siberian tiger (also known as the Amur, Korean, Manchurian, or North China tiger) is the largest and most powerful subspecies of naturally occurring feline. The Siberian ...

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Siberian Tiger (东北虎)
The Siberian tiger (also known as the Amur, Korean, Manchurian, or North China tiger) is the largest and most powerful subspecies of naturally occurring feline. The Siberian tiger is almost totally confined to a very restricted part of eastern Russia, the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorye and Khabarovsk, a location it shares with the Siberian leopard, where they are now being actively protected. About 10% of Siberian tiger populations reside in China.
The tiger population in the Sikhote-Alin was 250 in 1992, increasing to 350 as of 2004, despite significant losses of cubs due to car accidents on the single road that crosses their territory. Illegal poaching has been brought under control thanks to frequent road inspections. It is rumoured that there are still around 20 of these tigers in the Mount Changbai area of China.
As the total population of these tigers fell to 150 in the wild, many subpopulations are possibly not genetically viable, subject to potentially catastrophic inbreeding. However, Russian conservation efforts have led to a revival of the subspecies, and the number of individuals in the Primorsky region of Russia has risen from 450 to 500 in the past decade, indicating positive growth.

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