Our motherland is the homeland of tigers, a hundred years ago, China has 5 wild tiger subspecies, namely the Northeast tiger, Bengal tiger, Caspian tiger, Indochinese tiger, South China tiger, although human greed makes the Caspian tiger extinct, South China tiger extinct in the wild, but China is still the country with the largest number of wild tiger subspecies, next, let's take a look at the three existing tiger subspecies in China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Siberian tigers</h1>
Siberian tiger is the largest surviving tiger subspecies, male tigers weigh up to 270 kg, female tigers also have 160 kg, once because of human hunting and Chinese Siberian tigers moved to Russia to make the Chinese Siberian tiger almost extinct, and now, because of human protection and the russian Siberian tiger moved back to China, the Chinese Siberian tiger from about ten in the 1990s to sixty today.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Bengal tiger</h1>
Bengal tiger is the second largest tiger after the Siberian tiger, the male tiger upper limit is about 250 kg, the female tiger upper limit is about 170 kg, and the Siberian tiger is very close, mainly living in the Himalayas, 2012 ~ 2018 in Metuo, Tibet There were two incidents of Bengal tigers killing bison, in 2018 in Metuo took 3 Pictures of Bengal Tigers, it can be seen that The Bengal tiger is still distributed in China, the number is 15.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > Indochinese tiger</h1>
Chinese Indochinese tigers are mainly concentrated in Yunnan and Guangxi, only a few, in 2009 is considered to be extinct in China, in 2010, in the Xishuangbanna Protected Area found in the Indochinese tiger hunting bison, the next year found the footprints of the Indochinese tiger, on March 22, 2018, Xishuangbanna once again photographed the Indochinese tiger, About six Indochinese tigers live in China.
China is the homeland of tigers, and now, because of human hunting, China's tigers have dropped to only 83, and at some point, the extinct tiger subspecies can return to their homeland, tigers are the kings at the top of the food chain, the extinction of the Xinjiang tiger, the inverted gray wolves flooded, it can be seen how important the top predators are!
At present, there is a plan to let the Siberian tiger go to the border between China and Kazakhstan to become a Caspian tiger, because the pedigree of the Siberian tiger is very close to the Xinjiang tiger, but the Siberian tiger has not yet fully emerged from endangerment, so it is necessary to wait for the number of Siberian tigers to recover before sending the tiger from Russia to the border line between China and Kazakhstan.
Pictured: Indochinese tiger in a protected area in eastern India.
Let me give you an example, in the food chain, the top predators go extinct, the secondary predators will flood, and finally the whole food chain will be gone, so we should protect the large predators from extinction.