Save the Amur Tiger Project
Panthera tigris altaica- Wonder №1
2008-2009
Komsomolsk-na-Amure Sch.1 Form 8
Vasiliev Dmitry/ Lepeshkin Timophey
The teacher - Nekrasova T.M.
To the 70-th anniversary
of
Khabarovsk Krai
7 Wonders
28/11/2008
The Amur tiger tops the list of contestants of the Seven Wonders
of Khabarovsk territory contest.
The Amur tiger became one of the seven wonders of Khabarovsk Territory
7 WONDERS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
(the results of voting)
THE AMUR TIGER (3880 votes)
DUSSE ALIN PLATO (1755 votes)
SHANTAR ISLANDS (1630 votes)
THE LAKE AMUT (1561 votes)
THE BRIDGE OVER THE AMUR RIVER (1112 votes)
LOTUS-THE FLOWER (1044 votes)
PETROGLYPHS OF SICACHI ALIAN (962 votes)
If you want to know …
What the tigers’ habitat is
If it can swim
If people can be friends with tigers
What it looks like
Which species do not exist….
If people can save the tigers
and much more about tigers……..
Watch our Project!
To Live or not to Live?
Living species
Do not exist
Amur (Siberia, Ussury)
Tiger
Indian ( Bengaly) Tiger
Indochina Tiger
Southchina Tiger
Sumatra Tiger
Turan (
Kaspyisky)Tiger
Yava Tiger
Bali Tiger
•Among the 8 species only 5 are alive
•Bali Tiger, Yava Tiger and Turan do not exist any more
•There are only 334-417 adult individuals and 97-112 cubs inhabiting
the Russian Far East / statistic data of 2003 NATURE WITHOUT BORDERS. Alexander
Kulikov, Candidate of Biology. Magazine Far East. Issue 3. p.2-8/
Let’s think about it together…
Amur Tiger is
•The largest of the five tiger
species left roaming the
planet.
•It is a rare predator
threatened with extinction.
• It is the biggest and one of
the most furious cats.
• It’s an animal included into
the Russian Federation Red
Lists of Threatened Species.
• It is the most beautiful alive
animal living in the taiga of
the Russian Far East.
The area of sites of dwelling of tigers:
Males - 600-800 km / Females to 300-500 km.
Tigers are very conservative. They often use the
same tracks.
Reproduction of the Amure Tiger
• Kids are helpless. The
kid’s weight is less
than a kilo, but it
grows quickly. It starts
eating meat at twomonths old, but the
tigress gives it milk
for about half a year.
The tiger does not take
any participation in
education of children.
Females bring brooding not
less often, than alternate
years, starting to participate in
reproduction from 2-4 years.
Pregnancy lasts 95-107 days,
on the average 103 days. In a
dung usually 1-4 baby-tigers
more often 2-3are born.
Do white tigers live
in the Far East?
•White tigers live in
the Far East as well
as in India and China.
• It’s a rare specie – a
real wonder of nature.
•White tigers have
brown stripes and
crystal blue eyes, and
some specimens in
captivity have no
stripes at all.
What does it look like?
The largest of all the living cats, the tiger has got a
unique reddish - orange coat with black stripes. Stripe
patterns differ among individuals. The dark lines are
symmetrical, but the marks on the sides of the face and
body can be different.
In summer the coloring is brighter, and in winter the fur
becomes long and shaggy.
The tiger’s body is lengthened, the head is round, the
legs are not long and the tail is contrary long
Size and Weight
• Body length with head and with tail- 3 meters (9.8 feet).
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Adult female weights - 130 kg (290 pounds)
Adult male - 190 kg -300 (420-770 pounds).
A newborn cub’s weight - 1kg (2 pounds)
3 months cub - 10 kg (22 pounds).
3 years–old cub’s weight -over 100 kg (220
pounds).
Do you know that… the size of a tiger is
judged by its step /70-80 sm/
Pads and Claws
• Soft pads allow
tigers to sneak
silently upon its
prey
• Long (up to 10
cm (4 inches))
sharp claws
serve to capture
the pray.
Where does it live?
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Once Amur tigers lived
from Lake Baikal to
northern China. Now,
some 200-400 animals
live along the Amur
River in the national
parks of the Far East of
Russia.
The tiger inhabits the
Sikhote-Alin mountain
chain along the
southwestern and
northwestern
borderlines with China.
The Amur tiger habitat
area makes up 123,000
km2.
•The typical for the Amur
tiger habitat is a mixed
cedar-broad-leaved forest,
covering mountain slopes
and hills.
Can the tiger swim?
Unlike domestic animals
tigers like to swim
What do they eat?
 The basic food is a wild boar and a roe deer or a spotted
deer, siberian stag and even dogs.
 The tiger can cover 40-60 km per day.
 It needs a big area to survive.
 The tiger insistently moves around the selected area
making the tracking paths, hiding before jumping and
attacking the victim.
 With its large, up to 7.5 cm - long (3 inches) the tiger
snaps at its prey and kills it.
 Tigers, as well as other cats, do not chew the meat, but
divide it into pieces with the help of molars and then
swallow.
How long do tigers live…..
In sanctuaries tigers live more
than 26 years, as compared to 15 in the
wild. Tigers only live 10-12 years in zoos.
They will survive if they are not captured
for their skin, bones, claws….
 Tigers have always been
popular in myths, although they
paid а very high price for that.
Tibetan Medicine used almost
every part of their body bones, teeth, lips, claws,
mustaches to produce 'magical
drugs'. For centuries tigers
have been hunted and there
are nо tigers left in China now.
Fighting for survival
Poaching, human
caused destruction of
tiger habitat, a decline
in the number of
ungulates that are the
predator's primary
prey, these are the
factors that today
threaten the survival
of the tiger in the wild.
We should know that….
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In Russia's Red Book of Endangered
Species, the Amur tiger is attributed to
Category I as a rare, decreasing in
numbers subspecies, which is placed
under the threat of extinction.
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Hunting for tigers is prohibited since
1947.
 Nowadays, lots of green organizations
decided to cooperate. They are raising
money, fighting poaching, catching
cubs for zoos and parks. The results
are promising - many zoos around the
world have beautiful Аmur Tigers
descended from the little cubs caught
in the Far East of Russia.
Local projects
• WWF's first project in the south of the
Russian Far East was the Protection of the
Amur Tiger and its Habitats. The project
organized and supported anti-poaching
activities.
• WWF supported field team called «Tiger»
that was staffed by members of the
Primorskii Krai Committee on Ecology.
• WWF also supported anti-poaching teams in
the Lazo and Sikhote-Alin Zapovedniks,
protected landscapes that are key to the
tiger's survival. The program to protect this
rare and endangered wild animal has been a
WWF-Russia priority since 1994.
Resources:
We hope that we
contributed to your
knowledge about tigers
and your understanding of
the problem
Lepeshkin Timophey
and
Vasiliev Dmitrey
under the
guidness
of
Nekrasova Tatyana
Mikhilovna
school 1
Komsomolsk-na-Amure
2009
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