03.05.2020
Amur tigers have become obese in a Chinese zoo. Amur tigers have grown fat in a Chinese zoo (6 photos). According to the zoo workers themselves, the predators simply gained fat for the winter, almost like bears, and by spring the extra weight will go away on its own.
Pictures of overweight Amur tigers from Chinese natural park Harbin provinces are hugely popular on the Web. Why? Because everyone loves cats. And the mustachioed-striped ones do not look like wild animals just like cats. Fat, lazy, domestic!
Many joke that tigers ate too much during the Chinese New Year holidays. Others compare them with grandchildren, to whom their grandmother came to visit. But in this case, even a grandmother would have noted that her grandchildren are slightly out of shape.
Also, many are worried about the health of huge predators. However, the zoo staff assures that the dangers for giant cats excess weight does not carry. This is a kind of protective mechanism against the harsh Far Eastern winter. Tigers, like bears, deliberately eat off for the cold, so as not to freeze so much and always have a supply of energy. And the tiger park in China is trying to recreate it precisely natural conditions with frosts down to -20 degrees. True, biologists did not take into account the situation that cats in captivity move less, so they urgently put them on a diet. The beauty and shape of the animals are promised to be returned by summer.
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Harbin Amur Tiger Park covers an area of ten thousand square kilometers near the Chinese-Russian border. It was created to conserve the population of these big cats. Now the park is home to approximately 800 endangered individuals. In conditions wildlife only 500 Amur tigers remain - mostly in Russia.
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Editorial Faktruma shares with the reader photos of fat tigers and hopes that they will soon return to normal.
In the main zoo of the Chinese city of Harbin, today you can observe tigers that weigh several times their normal weight.
All photos in the post: © AsiaWireAccording to the zoo workers themselves, the predators simply gained fat for the winter, almost like bears, and by spring the extra weight will go away on its own.
However, zoologists sounded the alarm. World Organization for Animal Protection President Will Travers said these tigers need urgent help.
Travers believes that the tigers are either very seriously ill, or, despite all the prohibitions, they were fed by visitors to the Harbin zoo.
Now the Harbin Zoo is home to about eight hundred Amur tigers, whose weight is much higher than the norm.
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Amur tigers living in a zoo in the Chinese city of Harbin have gained a lot of weight, which visitors could not help but notice. Animals that have grown fat have become less mobile, and spend most of their time in lying position. Zoo staff noted that weight gain is associated with winter period when many animals put on weight. According to them, by spring, predators should return to their usual form. Quite a different opinion on this international organization animal welfare Born Free Foundation, where they believe that tigers urgently need help.
According to Born Free Foundation president Will Travers, being overweight is the result of poor diet, bad attitudes, and harsh living conditions. According to visitors, the tigers have grown fat because they are often fed by tourists, and writer and traveler Jared Salem (Jarryd Salem) noted that at this zoo, which contains about 800 Amur tigers, the employees themselves overfeed the animals with chicken, goat meat and beef. .
Editorial Faktruma shares with the reader photos of fat tigers and hopes that they will soon return to normal.
In the main zoo of the Chinese city of Harbin, today you can observe tigers that weigh several times their normal weight.
All photos in the post: © AsiaWireAccording to the zoo workers themselves, the predators simply gained fat for the winter, almost like bears, and by spring the extra weight will go away on its own.
However, zoologists sounded the alarm. World Organization for Animal Protection President Will Travers said these tigers need urgent help.
Travers believes that the tigers are either very seriously ill, or, despite all the prohibitions, they were fed by visitors to the Harbin zoo.
Now the Harbin Zoo is home to about eight hundred Amur tigers, whose weight is much higher than the norm.
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He traveled to China, where he stayed for a week and returned to his homeland. Specialists of the Amur Tiger Center continue to monitor the movements of the predator using a collar with a GPS module, which the tiger was equipped with upon release.
According to experts, on October 22, 2018, the tiger swam across the Amur River and ended up in China. "Fortunately for Saikhan, he didn't have time to act up much in a week and safely returned to the territory of Russia, and now he is moving towards the places where he lived for the last three months," he said. CEO Center "Amur Tiger" Sergei Aramilev. “According to the information of our colleagues, Saikhan managed to kill a ram, appear on the video recorder of the farmers and leave a trail 10 meters from the dog, but did not touch it. To put it bluntly, exemplary behavior."
It should be noted that the beginning of partnership relations between Russia and China in the field of conservation of Amur tigers and leopards was laid back on November 10, 1997, when the Protocol was signed between the Government Russian Federation and the Government of China People's Republic about protecting the tiger. According to joint studies of the two countries, in last years Approximately 40% of Amur tigers living in the border regions of China and Russia make active transboundary movements.
From October 24 to October 26, 2018, Harbin hosted international forum for the protection of the Amur tiger and leopard. Representatives of Russia, China and other countries of the world exchanged experience in the protection of wild animals, paying special attention to transboundary cooperation in the protection of Amur tigers and leopards.
"Currently, China is building the Northeast national park tiger and leopard, whose territory borders on the "Land of the Leopard". It is important to reach agreements on joint security and scientific activity. Therefore, we invited colleagues from China to visit the "Land of the Leopard" and continue discussing ways of cooperation for their further presentation to the governments of both countries," comments Viktor Bardyuk, director of the Land of the Leopard National Park.
Center "Amur Tiger"– autonomous non-profit organization created by Russian geographical society in 2013 at the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The tasks of the Center are to study, preserve and increase the population of the Amur tiger in Russia through the implementation of environmental, scientific, educational, cultural and educational projects.
"Land of the Leopard" – national park, created in Primorsky Krai in 2012. The main goal of the project is to preserve and restore the population Far Eastern leopard, the rarest large cat in the world, the number of which in Russia, according to the latest data, is 84 individuals. In addition, another cat, listed in the Red Book, lives here. International Union conservation, - the Amur tiger.
