This year's phenomenon of "Southern Elephant and Northern Tiger" has attracted the attention of the whole world. Not to mention how the "Southern Elephants" of Xishuangbanna came to a 15-elephant group trip to return. The Siberian tiger that just said "Wandashan No. 1" has caused many hot discussions in the world.
The vast mountain forests in northeast China are like a big stage for wild animals, and you sing and I appear on the stage - from the residual heat of "Putin Tiger" to "Wandashan No. 1", "Hunchun Tiger", "Wang Qinghu" and "Jiaohe Tiger" have set off a wave of tiger fever. Seeing that the Lunar Year of the Tiger is coming, this is not, the network suddenly jumped out of the "Shulan Tiger" news.
After a netizen saw my article in "Today's Headlines", he immediately informed me in the comment area on the evening of December 2: "On December 2, the tiger eating cattle incident occurred in Shulan Shangying. ”
Shulan City is under the administration of Jilin City, Jilin Province. "Jilin Tongzhi" records: Shu Lan, "juice also". The "Chronicle of Jilin Dizhi" explains: Manchu Shulan, fruit also. In the territory of The Sichuan River, the Huolun River originally belonged to the former Qinggong Mountain, which is a red land in the Caigong Hills." Shulan is a transliteration of the Manchu word "Shulehe", and the Manchu Roman character transliterates the meaning of "pear".
I hurriedly opened the network to look for it, and sure enough, I found that the news that "Jilin Shulan Tiger Eats Cattle" has been online.
In fact, in recent years, the forest area and agricultural area of Shulan City have continuously found traces of Siberian tigers. In the six or seven years since 2014, at least four or five "Shulanhu" messages have been circulated on the Internet.
On October 29, 2014, there was a sudden report on the Internet: "Jilin Shulan suspects the whereabouts of The Siberian tiger is suspected of being 300 kilograms of cows have been bitten to death!!!! 》。 The news said: Recently, a strange incident occurred in Badao Village, a small town in Shulan City, where a villager's cattle were "murdered" by something overnight, and the murderer made people feel a little frightened. After on-site investigation by wildlife conservation personnel of the Forestry Bureau of Shulan City, it was said: "Based on the tooth marks on the cow's body at the time of death, the hair and claw marks at the scene, we suspect that the cow was eaten by a tiger or leopard..."
In 2014, new culture network published a picture of cattle left over from being eaten by tigers in Shulan City.
On December 8, 2014, China News Network published a report by reporter Cang Yan entitled "Jilin Shulan Found Traces of Wild Siberian Tigers and A Pregnant Cow Was Preyed". According to the report, Liu Chunyang, a villager in the First Society of Maling Hebei Village in Shangying Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province, found a pregnant cow missing when he entered the mountain on the afternoon of November 30 to manage his cattle herd. The habit of the people in the mountains in the northeast is to graze the cattle freely in the mountain forest, and enter the mountain once a few days to manage it. Liu Chunyang raised 7 cows, and this time only 6 cattle were managed.
Cattle were a great property of the peasants, so the next day Liu Chunyang invited more than a dozen people to the mountains to look for them. On the afternoon of December 2, they found the missing cow in the mountain forest nearly 2 kilometers from the village. By this time, however, the cattle had been eaten by large animals to the point where only remnants remained. Liu Chunyang said the pregnant cow weighed more than 800 kilograms.
After receiving Liu Chunyang's alarm, the forestry department of Shulan City immediately rushed to the scene of the incident and found that the cow's arms and hind legs were eaten, and its front legs were standing on the snow. Because it was getting late, the staff had to go down the mountain after a simple survey.
Shulan eats the footprints left by the siberian tiger of the cow.
The next day, when the forestry department surveyed the scene again, it was found that the dead cattle had been dragged five or six meters away, and the meat on their bodies had been eaten again. After careful investigation, the forestry department found more than 10 new and old footprints, and found 3 urine samples and a number of "lying traces".
At this point, the staff comprehensively concluded according to the footprints of the animals, the size of the cattle that were preyed upon, the amount of food eaten by predators, the draging force and other information: the murderer is a tiger!
On the morning of December 7 of the same year, when Lei Guangsen, a villager in Xuegu Village, Wulajie Town, Longtan District, Jilin City, went out, he found a special footprint of plum-shaped big cats on a snowy field about 200 meters away on a path near the village.
Song Kexin, head of the forestry inspection brigade of the Forestry Bureau of Longtan District, Jilin City, said that on the afternoon of the same day, a large number of large footprints and lying traces of cats were also found in The Village of Heidingzi in Jinzhu Town, Longtan District, Jilin City. Both sites are no more than 20 kilometers apart and are close to the site where Liu Chunyang's cow was killed in The Village of Malinghe north in Shangying Town, Shulan City.
The remains of a cattle cow from Liu Chunyang's family in Shulan City that was eaten by a tiger on November 30, 2018
Tang Jingwen, deputy secretary-general of the Wildlife Conservation Association of the Jilin Forestry Bureau, visited two of the sites on December 8 to investigate the site, and the "lying tracks" found at the scene were more than two meters long, and according to the analysis of foot traces, urine and predation methods, the cow was attacked by a male tiger under 3 years old. The cow should be eaten by the tiger in three meals.
Tang Jingwen believes that there have been no tiger traces in Shulan City for more than 10 years, and the Northeast Tiger that has appeared in recent days should have wandered from the area of Zhang Guangcailing in the Yumai of Changbai Mountain.
On the morning of December 15, 2018, four years later, Bi Jingji, head of the animal protection section of the Shulan Forestry Bureau, and Qi Haiyang, a forestry engineer, received reports from rangers on the discovery of the footprints of the Siberian tigers, and found a large number of footprints and lying traces of siberian tigers in the forest area of the Shangying Forestry Administration in Shulan City. Since it had just snowed, the "footprints" of the tiger's claws at the scene were clearly visible.
Bi Jingji and other investigators followed the footsteps of the Siberian tiger from the bottom of the mountain to the "tiger's nest" where the tiger lay in the snow. There are tiger hairs left at the scene, and the footprint palm pad in the snow is 15 cm long, 9.5 cm wide, and the stride length is about 1.4 meters, which is in line with the walking posture of the Siberian tiger and confirms that it is an adult Siberian tiger trail. Judging by the recumbent marks and length of steps, this Siberian tiger is about 1.8 meters long, excluding the tail.
At about 7 a.m. on the 15th, Chen Xiaopeng, director of the Wildlife Protection Division of the Shangying Forest Management Bureau, said that when they patrolled the mountain to the junction of The Willow River Forest Farm and the Stone Stone Forest Farm, they found a large area of big cat footprints. After receiving the news, Bi Jingji, head of the animal protection section of the Shulan Forestry Bureau, immediately led the team to the scene. It was found that the footprints on the snow were clear and should have been left from the afternoon of the 14th to the morning of the 15th. Based on the analysis of footprints, palm pads, stride length and lying tracks, this is left by wild Siberian tigers.
On the evening of December 2, 2021, a netizen named "Yuanguan World" posted a message in the comment area of my article saying that "the tiger eating cattle incident occurred in Shulan Shangying on December 2" After online inquiries, sure enough, this news has been spread on Douyin - "A villager in Shangying Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province, found that only the remains of his lost cattle were left...".
Online sources said that #Jilin Shulan found trails of Siberian tigers #On December 2, a villager in Shangying Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province, found only the remains of his lost cattle, and experts from the Forestry Bureau of Shulan City preliminarily identified it as a Trail of Siberian Tigers after on-site surveys. via.Shulan Rong Media #Jilin Breaking News ##吉林身边事 #
Then, Wang Wei, a reporter from Jilin Daily, reported that Mr. Ding, a villager in Shangying Town, Shulan City, found that the remains of his lost calf appeared in the nearby woods, and the body of the cow was seriously eaten, and after expert identification, the cow was hunted by wild Siberian tigers. The Siberian tiger palm pad is more than 10 cm and is the footprint of an adult wild Siberian tiger.
The Shangying ForestRy Management Bureau and the shangying town government of Shulan City reminded nearby villagers that there have been traces of Siberian tigers in the mountain forests here, and villagers should take precautions for their own and their property safety to avoid people and livestock from moving to areas where Siberian tigers may be infested.
As the saying goes, the tiger is in the mountains and forests, and the dragon is submerged in the river and the sea. This is the right place to live.
The Siberian tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger, is one of the subspecies of the tiger. It is the largest carnivorous cat in existence, with an average weight of 250 kg and a head length of about 2.3 meters, while an adult tigress weighs about 170 kg, has a body length of about 2 meters, a shoulder height of about 1.1 meters, and a tail length of about 1.3 meters. The maximum length can reach 2.9 meters (including tail length).
Siberian tigers are typical montane forest-dwelling animals, inhabiting deciduous broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous broad-leaved forests in northeast China, often found in ridges, dwarf forest shrublands and mountains with more rocks or gravel ponds for easy predation. It inhabits forests, shrubs and weedy areas. Living alone, without settlement, with territorial behavior, the range of activities can reach more than 100 square kilometers. Nocturnal, sensitive senses, fierce sex, quick movement, good swimmer, can climb trees. It mainly preys on large and medium-sized mammals such as deer, roe deer, wild boar, etc., and also preys on cows and horses. Tigers can't tell whether cattle and horses are domestic or wild, and they hunt whenever they are edible. The method of predation is sneak attack.
Shulan City is located in the north-central part of Jilin Province, in the transition zone from the remnants of Changbai Mountain to the Songliao Plain, with complex landform types. It borders Longtan District and Jiaohe City of Jilin City to the south and Wuchang City of Heilongjiang Province to the northeast. The Shangying Forest Management Bureau of Jilin Province is located in the southeast of Shulan City. It is located on the west side of Zhang Guangcai Ridge.
The large green area in the east and south of Shulan City is the remnant of Zhang Guangcai Ridge.
The geographical location of Shulan City determines that Siberian tigers will often visit here.
The Siberian tiger's homeland was originally in China in Asia, but due to the predatory logging of mountains and forests and the extinct hunting of wild animals in the past, the small number of surviving Siberian tigers felt that China had no place to settle down and no food to hunt, so they crossed the Border of the Heilongjiang River and migrated to the no-man's land of Russia's far East Siberia. After the reform and opening up, China has worked hard to protect and restore the natural ecology, so that the already fragmented mountain forests have been reconnected; due to the total ban on hunting, wild animals have multiplied rapidly. As a result, the Siberian tiger has both territory and food, so from the extinct tigers in the 1980s to the present day, there are 30 or 40 tigers in the northeast.
At present, the border between China and Russia has formed four corridors for the free movement of Siberian tigers: First, Hunchun, Jilin - Suiyang, Heilongjiang - northern Dongning. The second is the northern part of Dongning, Heilongjiang. The third is the border area between Heilongjiang Dongfanghong and Russia. The fourth is the Xiaoxing'an Mountains.
Siberian tigers are very mobile and have a large territory. But the area of activity is always inseparable from the alpine dense forest. Whether it is a Siberian tiger entering from the Hunchun region of Jilin Province, or a Siberian tiger that enters the country through three corridors, such as xiaoxing'anling or the border between Dongfanghong and Russia in Heilongjiang, there is a habit of traveling east-west along the main mountain ranges in Jilin Province and Heilongjiang.
The mountain trend of xiaoxing'an ridge in the north of the Heilongjiang river and the guanda mountain in the central part of the Heilongjiang territory, and the mountain trend of Zhang Guangcailing at the junction of Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province, constitute an anti-letter y letter. Xiaoxing'an Ridge and Wanda Mountain are the two branches of the y letter, and Zhang Guangcai Ridge is the big tail of the y letter inserted obliquely into the main peak of Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province. Therefore, whether it is from the west of the Changbai Mountain Northeast Tiger and Leopard Park, or the tigers from Xing'anling or WandaShan, they must pass through Zhang Guangcailing, a natural passage formed by tigers since ancient times. The location of Zhang Guangcailing is located in the north of Jiaohe City and the southeast of Shulan City, southeast of the ShangyingSen Economic Bureau.
When the Siberian tiger passes by Zhang GuangcaiLing, it either inspects the territory, or looks for food, or looks for a mate, which inevitably sneaks to the mountain forest in Shulan City, northwest of Zhang GuangcaiLing, and then wanders around, catches two cows to eat, just like Sun Wukong soaked urine at the root of rulai Buddha's finger, becoming a memorial for the Siberian tiger to visit here.
The most important factor is that the natural ecological system of Shulan City, with forests as the main body, has been well restored and the hunting ban has been done well. The food chain has been improved, the wildlife resources have been enriched, and a complete biodiversity system has been formed. Let the Siberian tiger linger after this.
The Siberian Tiger is coming! This is good news for Shulan City. (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer from Qingdao, Shandong, has lived in the snowy plains of Linhai in Northeast China for more than 50 years, published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentaries, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles. ）