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Sumatran Tigers
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. tigris
Subspecies: P. t. sumatrae
Trinomial name: Panthera tigris sumatrae
Habitat and Distribution: Found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in lowland and montane forests.
Size: Up to 7-8 feet in length, about 2+ feet tall at the shoulder; 200-275 pounds
Wild Diet: Wild pig, deer, tapirs, will actually eat anything it can catch
Predators: Humans, young tigers can fall prey to other tigers, leopards, and snakes
Lifespan: 10-12 years in the wild; 18-20 years in zoos
Reproduction: Maturity is reached by 3-4 years of age. Gestation lasts 100-110 days. Average litter size is 2-4 cubs. Cubs weigh a little over two pounds at birth and nurse about 6-10 weeks. By 18 months of age tigers are ready to be out on their own and hunt their own food.
Behavior: Tigers are generally solitary animals. Both male and female tigers map out their own territory by spraying urine on trees, bushes, and the ground. The specific range size of the Sumatran tiger is not known, however the population density is approximately 4-5 adult tigers per 40 square miles in lowland rainforest. Tigers are not very active most of the time. They sleep about 18-20 hours a day. Sumatran tigers are also a cat that enjoys the water and will swim to cool down in the hot jungle.
Conservation
Status: Critically Endangered
The wild Sumatran tiger population is estimated at 250-300. There are about 200 Sumatran tigers that live in zoos around the world; over 70 of those are in the USA. There are only five remaining subspecies of tiger (Amur also known as Siberian, Bengal, Indochinese, South China, and Sumatran). The three other subspecies have been extinct since the 1950s (Caspian, Javan, and Bali).
Interesting Facts
Tigers are excellent swimmers and can easily cross rivers and lakes five miles wide. They are also the largest members of the cat family. The Sumatran tiger is the smallest of the tiger subspecies and has the darkest coat. All tigers have suffered from poaching, as well as loss of habitat to human settlement, and conflict with farmers over tigers hunting their farm-raised animals. At one time, tigers could be found as far west as eastern Turkey. Now tigers are only found in areas of eastern and southern Asia.
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Mitchell's water monitor (Varanus mitchelli) on a Paperbark tree in the Yellow Waters wetland of Kakadu National Park. It is an active tree climber and this helps given that it lives in the swampy wetlands of northern Australia which floods each year during the rainy season. It can get to about 70 cm and this guy was about that size. It is a predator eating anything it can from birds and small mammals to fish and frogs. They are not commonly seen in the wild as they are quite secretive but this guy sat on the truck as we floated by in a boat.
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I've just learned how to drybrush and I think it really helped here. I now can't wait to do more painting with this new skill I've learned!
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A Hell-Hound, also known as a Predator Hound or Predator Dog, is a non-sentient species used by the Tracker Super Predator during his Hunts on the Game Preserve Planet.
Hell-Hounds are used by the Super Predator Clan to flush out their prey, the same way as a hunter would use dogs to flush out their quarry. The Hell-Hounds are controlled by the Tracker Predator. The Tracker has a whistle device that is used to call the hounds back to their master to prevent the Hell-Hounds from doing too much damage and killing the prey. If this were to happen, the Super Predators would have no prey to hunt. It was stated by Robert that the reason the "dog handler" has armor on his legs and the armor on his arms is because of the large horns and spikes that are present on the Hell-Hounds. They have a high pain tolerance and they are also very resilient, as evidenced from the Hell-Hounds' surviving many gunshot wounds which would be fatal to creatures from Earth. Several shots are required to take them down or possibly hit their vital organs. Even when being shot with a weapon like a M134 Minigun, they remain standing for a good amount of time, though this could simply be due to the inaccuracy of the wielder, as very little evidence of the creatures actually being hit is shown.
The Super Predators unleash the Hell-Hounds and watch their prey split up as they struggle to survive. They stalk their prey's every move. If their prey is injured they will whistle and send the Hell-Hounds back, they will finish off their prey either by a brutal kill or they will make trophies of them.
Despite being called dogs or hounds, Hell-Hounds appear to be therapsids (mammal-like reptiles); they have scales and have an almost tricerotops-like appearance, but look like a canine at the same time.
Hell-Hounds bear resistance against the acid blood of Xenomorphs, as during a Xenomorph Hunt, the Tracker's Hell-Hounds "did not leave a shred of the prey intact".