Striped king. Is the Amur Tiger an evil taiga spirit or just a big cat?

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Do we know him well? For example, what is the real Amur tiger (aka, named after the taiga, Ussuriysky) – the only subspecies of tigers living in our country? Why do representatives of the indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia (and not only them) consider this largest and northernmost predatory feline in the world, capable of surviving –40°C, as a “divine beast”? About this “AiF” said specialists in the study and protection of Amur tigers.

Intellectual predator

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&ldash;Amur Tiger– a great mystery and will remain so for a long time, – Primorsky biologist-gamekeeper Pavel Fomenko, honorary nature conservation worker of the Russian Federation, believes.In March 2018, he almost died from an attack of the one of his wards – family tigresses. She tore the fence of the enclosure in which she was for rehabilitation and treatment, rushed at the scientist and seriously injured him. After that, however, he did not quit his job and returned to protecting the tigers on the Amur. 

“Our Tiger– not just a “big wild cat”, but a special, almost mystical animal, – said Fomenko. – It is he who rules the ball in the Far Eastern taiga, here he is the real king of nature. Rarely does anyone see it, but in the forest you smell the tiger with a special “vision”. This state can be described by the word “maeta”: nothing seems to be happening, but something around you is no longer the same. Experienced hunters are well aware of this. Perhaps this is the strongest tiger energy? ”

In addition, the Amur Tiger behaves like an inveterate intellectual: it is intelligent and has an excellent memory, and it remembers not only bad, but also good. “My friends Nanai, from whom the tiger stole the prey, said that he returned it later. And such cases have happened more than once. It happens like this : a hunter kills, say, a wild boar, hides it in the forest, because it is difficult to take away all the meat at once. Then a tiger finds this place and eats the wild boar carcass. And after a while , the same hunter goes away, looks, and on his way is the half-carcass of another wild boar, killed by this tiger Or, for example, frightened animals jump out of the forest on a hunter, but it turns out that the tiger himself led them to him. And all because while butchering his prey in the forest, a man carefully left some of it for the tiger.

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As Pavel Fomenko clarifies, according to the official archives of 2015, in the Primorsky Territory, on the right bank of the Amur in the Khabarovsk Territory, in the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Amur Region. there were only 540 tigers. Today, there may already be around 600 of them. At the same time, Amur tigers live not only in nature reserves and national parks: 80% of their population lives in unprotected forests and hunting farms. 10% of tigers live in China, where to kill the “divine beast” pronounced the death penalty. But poachers are still chasing them. 

“Often, need drives people to kill a tiger, – explains Fomenko. – Also, there have always been, there are, and there will be war tigers that attack livestock and pets. due to the lack of ungulates in the taiga, injuries or diseases, striped predators sometimes come to villages for cattle and dogs, for example, the snowy winter of 1983-1984 led to the catastrophic death of tens of thousands of ungulates in the northern Primorsky and southern Khabarovsk Territory As a result, in 1985, only according to official data, 20 tigers were slaughtered in Primorye, in 1986 – already 43 According to Vasily Solkin, the vast majority of people in Primorye have never seen a tiger in the wild: compared to the tiger: they behave more aggressively, often not out of malice, but out of fear Especially when it comes to a hunting area, where your well-being depends the number of sables you have captured. And a huge predatory cat bothers you there from morning to evening, which, by its very presence, causes irritation. The result is a confrontation between beast and man.”.

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