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She is a beauty! Tiger is also a cookie monster and gets very excited when you pull one out. I had to stand on a bench and shoot down on her, so she wouldn't come towards me for the treat. She also has a fantastic coat of fur.
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This pair of tigers were really curious and friendly at the local animal preserve. The white one is the result of a recessive gene that creates the color change.
Once you get up close, you realize how large these cats are. The biggest one is around 600 pounds! It was fun to be around them even though you aren't in the cage (safety first!).
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Canon A-1, Soligor 70-210, Fuji Velvia 100.
This is from my first roll of slide film. A very majestic tiger at Shepreth Wildlife Park.
I reposted this image without the frame I had on it earlier. Flickr would replace the image but not remove the frame when I tired to get other sizes.
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I was at the Memphis Zoo and they came out and fed the tigers and I was lucky to have a front row location right against the rail.
This photo was taken at the Melbourne Zoo. To create the shot above the photo was cropped to minimize the cage in the background. Then adjusted the sharp slider and the noise reduction to give the photo an enhanced look, also increased the colour saturation to get this effect. HSS
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
From the beginning of a William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) poem.
I've been very busy at work as we tried to get everything done by Christmas.
Two Siberian Tigers
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Amur Tiger - Colchester Zoo, Colchester, Essex, England - September 2008.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, Manchurian tiger, or Ussuri tiger, is a rare subspecies of tiger (P. tigris) confined completely to the Amur region in the Far East, where it is now protected. It is considered to be the largest of the nine recent tiger subspecies and the largest member of the family Felidae.
Distribution and population - The Siberian tiger is endangered. In the early 1900s, it lived throughout northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, northeastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia. Today, the majority of the population is confined to a tiny part of Russia's southern Far East: the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky and Khabarovsky Krai. There are very few tigers in northeastern China and fewer still in North Korea. The South Korean population died out in 1922.
By the 1940s the estimated population was down to fewer than 50 in the Russian Far East, although some hundreds still populated neighbouring China. The number increased to more than 200 in 1982, although in China there are now thought to be no more than a dozen or so Siberian tigers. Poaching has been brought under better control by frequent road inspections. Captive breeding and conservation programs are active. The Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Centre in the northern Heilongjiang province of China,together with its partner Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, plan to release 620 Siberian tigers after its numbers have increased from 708 to 750. A 1996 count reported 430 Siberian tigers in the wild. However, Russian conservation efforts have led to a slight increase, or at least to a stable population of the subspecies, as the number of individuals in the Siberian forests was estimated to be between 431 and 529 in 2005. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the latest Russian Census reports put this number to be anywhere between 480 and 520 without including the small numbers of this subspecies present in mainland China.
Physiology - The Siberian tiger is typically 2-4 inches taller at the head than the Bengal tiger, which is about 107-110 cm (42-43 in) tall.[7] Mature males reach an average head and body length of 190-220 centimetres (75-97 in). The largest male with largely assured references was 350 cm (138 in) "over curves" (3,30 m/130 in. between pegs) in total length. The tail length in fully grown males is about 1 m (39 in). Weights of up to 318 kg (700 lb) have been recorded and exceptionally large males weighing up to 384 kg (847 lb) are mentioned in the literature but, according to Mazak, none of these cases can be confirmed via reliable sources. A further unconfirmed report tells of a male tiger shot in the Sikhote Alin Mountains in 1950 weighing 384.8 kg (846.6 lb) and measuring 3.48 m (11.5 ft). Females are normally smaller than males and weigh 100-167 kg (220-368 lb),probably up to 180 kg (400 lb).
Reproduction - Siberian tiger cubSiberian tigers reach sexual maturity at 3 years of age. They mate at any time of the year. A female signals her receptiveness by leaving urine deposits and scratch marks on trees. She will spend seven days with the male, during which she is receptive for three days. Gestation lasts 3–3½ months. Litter size is normally 3 or 4 cubs but there can be as many as 6. The cubs are born blind in a sheltered den and are left alone when the female leaves to hunt for food.
Cubs are divided equally between genders at birth. However, by adulthood there are usually 2 to 4 females for every male. The female cubs remain with their mothers longer, and later they establish territories close to their original ranges. Males, on the other hand, travel unaccompanied and range farther earlier in their lives, thus making them more vulnerable to poachers and other tigers.
After a long wait..it was that awe moment when he slowly moved out from the water habitat, settling with a calm and tough attitude that he threw..to convey the pride of being a Prince of Bandipur!!
Why This Photo Is Meaningful to Me: I was standing at the tiger enclosure of the Phoenix Zoo one day and not much was happening. A zoo employee was nearby. He approached me and told me that he had just finished helping the zoo veterinarian who was cleaning the teeth of a specially difficult tiger. He told me the animal would be released into the open enclosure soon and he would most likely be very angry. So I set up my camera and tripod and waited. Sure enough the tiger was released and the moment he saw me standing at the fence line he gave out a wild ferocious growl and charged at me. Thanks to the fence and a deep moat separating me from him I safely snapped off some photos. The sound of his growl was very frightening to say the least.