▲The "Amur Tiger Engineering Research Center" of the marketing number
Some marketing numbers deliberately confuse the "Amur Tiger Project" with the "Amur Tiger Center", and the frequent name is "Amur Tiger Engineering Research Center". In fact, the two are two very different species.
On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia's society and economy have been hit hard, and the situation has been turbulent. The Russian government's inability to support tiger research and conservation efforts has led to a high incidence of poaching against tigers. With the economic development, road construction and oil and gas harvesting in the Far East, tiger habitats in the Russian Far East have also been further damaged.
Tiger conservation in Russia is supported by international environmental agencies, notably the International Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Over the next dozen years, international institutions played a huge role in the research and conservation of Siberian tigers.
▲Dale· Miquelle
In 1992, the American Dale Miguire Miquelle) came to the Russian Far East and began to work on the research and conservation of the Amur tiger.
Born and raised in Boston, USA, Dale Miguire is a yale graduate. Before coming to Russia, he studied tigers for a year in Nepal's Chitwan National Park and earned a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. He then went to Alaska to study reindeer for six years, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Idaho.
In 1994, Dale moved to the japanese coastal town of Terney. The town of Terni is also home to the Sikhote-Arin Reserve Authority, which has since become a major town for Siberian tiger research.
Dell established the Siberian Tiger Project, a Russian-American cooperation project commonly known as the Amur Tiger Project. Over the next two decades, we have promoted policy change through scientific research and worked with China and Russia to promote tiger conservation. The project has also become the longest-running tiger field research project to date.
The goal of the Siberian Tiger Project is to gather the best scientific information about tiger ecology for use in conservation programs. Since 1992, tracking more than 60 tigers by radio, WCS experts have studied their social structure, territorial use patterns, dietary habits, reproduction, mortality, and relationships with other species, including humans.
The Siberian Tiger Project has been seeking to combine traditional Russian methods of field research, such as snow footprint surveys, with the best methods abroad, such as radio telemetry, to achieve new breakthrough results. The study focused on the comparison of tiger pup mortality, spread and survival rates, density assessment techniques, and understanding the relationship between poaching and population structure and dynamics.
▲ A generation of legendary Tiger Dale
During the Siberian Tiger Project, scientists discovered a very strong tiger, numbered M20, which was named Dale in honor of Dale Miguire, the leader of the Siberian Tiger Project. The tiger is also well known for the Siberian Tiger Project's tiger monograph Chapter 19: The Relationship between the Amur Tiger and The Brown and Black Bears, and its legendary life has hunted many bears, the strongest of which is to kill an adult female brown bear weighing between 150 and 200 kg.
▲ Tiger monograph of the Amur Tiger Project
When Russia slowly recovered from the ashes of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2008, with the support of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Russian Academy of Sciences launched the Amur Tiger Research Project in the Russian Far East, led by scientist Vyacheslav Rozhnov.
Putin's participation has mixed the research and protection of the Amur tiger with a strong atmosphere of hype, and it is no longer a simple wildlife protection and research work. On August 31, 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin performed a tiger-shooting show in the Russian Far East.
▲ Putin shoots tiger show
In July 2013, at Putin's initiative, the Russian National Geographic Society took the lead in establishing the Amur Tiger Center. The Centre is a non-governmental organization, a civil society organization with no government funding and funded by donations. The registered main business of the Amur Tiger Center is environmental pollution monitoring, and it also involves hunting, real estate, publishing and other businesses.
This center is the "Russian Amur Tiger Research Center" that often appears in marketing articles and short videos. What made the Amur Tiger Center popular was not its research content, but an imprecise tweet posted by its social media accounts (Amur Tiger Center: Can an adult grand male tiger beat any bear?). - Bilibili), which became the basis for tiger powder to be used in mechanical fighting animals and daily tiger blowing.
1. Created a rumor that the average brown bear weighs more than half a ton that makes the tiger blowers uneasy.
▲ Tiger blowing is difficult to calm
This rumor that tiger fans are embarrassed that "brown bears weigh more than half a ton" comes from the Amur Tiger Center, which tiger fans have blown.
▲ Amur Tiger Center tweet
The Amur Tiger Center's elaboration mentions that "brown bears in the far southeast of Russia weigh 400, 500 or even 600 kilograms", this description directly ignores 100 kilograms, 200 kilograms of brown bears, and even 300 kilograms are directly skipped, and those who do not know the truth will even think that 400 kilograms and 500 kilograms are the norm for Ussuri brown bears, but in fact, the normal weight of this level does not belong to Ussuri brown bears, and only polar bears in some regions can reach the average weight of this level. As a wildlife research institution, it is really unsatisfactory to show such amateurism on social accounts.
2. Amur Tiger Center: Tigers weigh up to 384 kilograms and have a lifespan of 50 years.
▲Propaganda content of the Amur Tiger Center
The 384-kilogram giant tiger widely circulated on the Internet does not exist, and according to expert Slater, this data is actually made up by a popular science writer named Sisov. On his deathbed, Bromley told Prin that he had hunted a large tiger in Sikhote Arin in the 1950s and that there was no other information. Prin told Sisov about the conversation. With no formal education or scientific literacy, Sisov added 384 kilograms of weight information to the tiger for sensationalism. Bromley is a famous tiger expert in the former Soviet Union, this tiger has also been widely circulated because of his label, and even been included in the Guinness Book of World Records, in fact, the tiger is real, but the weight is false, and no one knows how much this tiger has. The average Siberian tiger is 300 kilograms, which is pure nonsense, and it is good that a super-large individual can have 300 kilograms.
Chapter 6 of the Amur Tiger Project Monograph
However, the Amur Tiger Center's so-called tiger research institute does not screen the rumors widely circulated on the Internet, and the level is really worrying!
3. Recognize the wrong tiger, and even recognize the tigress as a male tiger.
▲ The Amur Tiger Center mistakenly identified a female tiger as a male tiger thunderbolt
The Amur Tiger Center mistakenly confessed a tigress and thought that the tiger was a male tiger thunder, but this was only a small episode in the Amur Tiger Center's long-term recognition of the tiger. Even tiger blowers don't buy this.
The "Amur Tiger Project" and the "Amur Tiger Center" are two very different species. The former is a project with top professional and dedicated scientists who have produced a large number of academic papers of high scientific value. The latter is a non-governmental organization, and it is always surprising and repeatedly out of words on its social accounts.
▲ "Amur Tiger Engineering Research Center" made up by Tiger Blowing
Tiger fans invented the term "Amur Tiger Engineering Research Center", which is intended to mislead the public and confuse the difference between the two, so that people mistakenly think that "Amur Tiger Project" and "Amur Tiger Center" are the same thing, and negate the professionalism of "Amur Tiger Project" and its great contribution with the amateur performance of "Amur Tiger Center".
▲ Tiger powder: The territory of the male tiger is 3,000 kilometers in diameter
When tiger fans are embarrassed to blow the tiger territory with a diameter of 3,000 kilometers, can they think a little bit about it? What's more, 3,000 km is considered to be an area. Of course, when misleading the public, the performance of the mathematical level is not the only case, in "Bears account for 40.7% of the tiger menu, what is the tiger so strong?" In the article, the museum wiki has shown their addition level to everyone, and can even calculate the result of 18.5 + 14.8 + 3.7 = 40.
▲ Awkward blowing 3000 kilometers, do not learn mathematics?
3,000 kilometers is the straight-line distance from Urumqi to Nanjing, according to the round area formula, the diameter of 3,000 kilometers means that the circular area exceeds 7 million square kilometers, and the territorial area of several countries in the world can exceed 7 million square kilometers, which is a handful.
▲3000 kilometers is the straight-line distance from Urumqi to Nanjing
From the many embarrassing blows of tiger fans, it can be found that this group blows tigers, worships tigers, and worships tigers, but does not understand tigers at all, or even intends to understand tigers at all, and even does not have the minimum common sense related to tigers.
In fact, the text says that the male tiger's athletic ability is much stronger than that of the female tiger, and the male tiger has run 3,000 kilometers since he was released.