SOUTH CHINA TIGER

CHARACTERISTICS

• This species is classified as on of the smallest tigers out there in the wild
• The South China tigers are being moved to other areas of captivity because they are very endangered.
• There stripes are bigger than other tigers
• The South China tiger is in the top 10 endangered animals of the world

ADAPTATIONS

• Perhaps the most obvious is the sun makes stripes shadows of the stripes just like the tiger
• Tigers need to live in areas with dense vegetation access to water and prey
• The camouflage makes it hard for prey to catch them
• There claws are large teeth help them hunt in the wild

POPULATION & YEAR

• 1970 there were at least 4000
• 1985 there were 2150
• 1990-1995 there were 1380
• 2000 there were 850
• 2008 there were 350

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The South China tiger is located in China Nanchang Yihuang

ECOSYSTEM

• The south china tiger is subspecies that historically ecosystem was SouthEastern China
• South China tigers live in places like mountain evergreen forests, thick damp tropical forests and rocky mountains
• Some other animals that live there are the leopard, woodpecker, great barbet and more
• The scientific names are Gecinulus grantia, Panthera pardus and more

THREATS

• Humans are tigers archenemy the most significant predator and a threat to the tigers
• The Forest fragments are surrounded by rapidly cutting down the forest. Without wilderness, the tigers will not survive
• Pollution from chemical fertilizers poisons the tigers
• Heriditary diseases appear in captive bred tigers caused by inbreeding
• Genetic inbreeding to tigers is bad because they will have the same jeans and its good to have different jeans because it want effect all tigers

PROTECTION

• Some efforts to protect tigers habitat have focused on programs and a few programs have been successful
• In September 2003 two South China tigers were sent to the reserve from a Chinese zoo
• They did training projects the goal whichis to release the big cats which is the South China tiger back into their natural habitat

HOW I WOULD KEEP THE SOUTH CHINA TIGER FROM GETTING EXTINCT

• I would catch them and then put them put them into a secured observatory and people could see them
• I would give them there meat and water give them baths and a male and female in the observatory and they will have babies and there would be more

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