Herbivores and carnivores form a sharp contrast, herbivores eat a lot of food because of direct grazing, the number of herbivores is also very large, while carnivores are not, because directly eating herbivores, too many if the entire ecological chain collapses. Nowadays, wild boars are rampant in many places, and tigers are generally only seen in zoos.
In recent years, in many parts of China, wild boar has become a disaster, which is related to the past human activities, the endangerment or extinction of beasts of prey, especially large beasts, it is difficult to play a role in maintaining the natural ecology. For example, in China, there have been a variety of tigers, Xinjiang tiger, South China tiger and Siberian tiger, as well as the legendary blue tiger that appeared in fujian, only the Siberian tiger still exists, but it is also endangered, there are only a few dozen in China, and hundreds of thousands of them are distributed in North Korea, Siberia and other places.
Although the number of wild bears is still relatively considerable, but the bear is not the main force of hunting wild boars, because the bear is still a lot of stupid, it has the strength to hunt wild boars, but basically in addition to the polar bears bears are omnivores, sometimes eat some berries can be. So hunting wild boars still depends on flexible big cats, to put it bluntly, tigers and other predators, leopards can also catch wild boar cubs, but against the fertility of adult individuals, leopards are small in size and have some difficulty.
The reduction in the number of beasts of prey, coupled with the protection of the environment today, wild boars reproduce rapidly because of their strong reproductive ability, showing a flooding trend in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi and other places, wild boars will cause agricultural losses, and occasionally collide with humans. This has caused people to hate wild boars, and in order to protect the ecology, the garden department will also organize or hire professional hunting teams to hunt wild boars with hunting dogs and shotguns, and limit the reproduction of wild boars by reducing the number of wild boars.
It is equivalent to using people to make up for the status of the beast, the advantage of man is that it is easy to mobilize and organize, can effectively eliminate wild boars, control its population, but it is also more troublesome, need to train hunting dogs, to have a certificate to hold a shotgun, it is not easy to participate in hunting. In zoos around the world, the number of tigers is far more than the number of wild tigers, and although the South China tiger is extinct in the wild, there are many in zoos. Can you requisition these tigers and use them to hunt wild boars? In this way, tigers can also be exercised, and after the wild recovery, they can naturally regulate the natural ecology.
The idea is very good, unfortunately, there are too few tigers today, there are more wild Siberian tigers, but they have their own habitat, Siberia to Daxing'anling, enough Siberian tiger activities, off-site mobilization of tigers, one or two also, useless, must have a certain population size, so that they can naturally reproduce and can control the number of wild boar more effectively. Otherwise, it is a white ride, although the beast is fierce, but the hunting efficiency is always inferior to that of humans.
There are many South China tigers in the zoo, but the harsh reality is that modern South China tigers are all inbreeded offspring, and the population is in decline, even if they are genealogically compiled. And the rewilding training of South China tigers has not been successful, once China transported more than a dozen South China tigers to the South African Tiger Valley for rewilding training, in the protected area because there is no competition between lions and hunting dogs, South China tigers adapt to IT, but there is still no successful release of South China tigers. And the release will encounter the above problems, which must be a population and not a very individual individual.
Modern South China tiger is no longer suitable for the wild, the genetic diversity of the population is decreasing, the quality of the population is also decreasing, and the rewilding training needs to simulate the natural environment, needs to work very systematically, needs to let them learn to identify risks, just by fighting strength, even if the zoo's South China tiger defeats the wild boar, the problem is not very big, but they lack experience in the jungle life, it is difficult to identify the risks in the jungle, encounter a bear fight, encounter a ditch and fall into it, drink unsuitable water, and it is very deadly in the wild.
China has been relatively successful in realizing the wild release of a panda, but that is through the mode of the mother beast with cubs, capturing the wild female beast for her to conceive, after the cub is transferred to a special rewilding training field, the wild female beast can teach the cub a lot of things, teach the cub to hunt or identify the risk, so as to dare to release. A panda that had been released earlier was injured by intruding into the territory of wild pandas and causing a fight, and fell from a high place and died quickly.
Rewilding training and release is complex, and humans cannot yet simulate the experience of a female beast with a cub. Modern South China tigers have no role in regulating the natural ecology, and the survival in the zoo also makes them lack territorial awareness, the wild nature is gradually lost, when feeding live food, they can catch, but they may not be able to successfully hunt in the wild. So thinking about it, in the end, only humans can hunt wild boars to control the number of wild boars, and it is no longer realistic for tigers to hunt wild boars.