Battle Royale tigress for territory

• Battle Royale tigress for territory

These scenes rarely seen in the wild, not to mention the fact, to take a picture. Two tigress fighting over territory. Battle Royale in the dynamics.

Tiger - one of the four members of the genus panther. This big cat is one of the largest land predators, yielding a white mass and Brown Bear.

The tiger is the largest and heaviest of the wild cats, but its different subspecies vary greatly in size and weight. Continental subspecies of tiger are larger island. The largest of them are Indian (Bengali) and Amur (Ussuri, Siberian) subspecies. Males data subspecies can reach up to 2.5 m, and in some cases up to 2.6-2.8 meters in length without tail and weigh up to 275 kg, and in some cases up to 300-320 kg.

In this battle, the "orange" tigress flattered to grab a piece of someone else's territory. But "white" tiger was not going to give in, the more it was larger and more massive.

By the way, the frequency of appearance of white tiger - one fish per 10,000 with normal coloration.

Tigers hunt entirely alone, using two stages of hunting: to stalk production and waiting to ambush her. The first technique is more commonly used by tigers in the winter, the second - in the summer. These large and powerful cats - a real killing machine in spite of the large body mass, the tiger can reach speeds up to 60 km / h on almost any terrain, while hunting is able to jump to a height of 5 meters and 9-10 meters in length, production and weight sometimes 6-7 times greater than its own.

on the whole territory of the tiger habitat is the apex of the food pyramid, and almost does not feel competition from other predators. It is known that tigers can kill other carnivores, particularly wolves, leopards, boas and sometimes even swamp crocodiles. Siberian tigers and brown bears are a rather serious danger for each other; there are numerous reports that tigers are even attacking the adult bears.

Adults Tigers - territorial animals, leading solitary and fiercely defend their territory. The size of the personal territory tiger is highly dependent on the habitat, prey abundance, and, in the case of males, on the presence of females in this area. Tiger may have an area the size of about 20 sq. km, while the area of males are usually much more - 60-100 square meters. km.

Unfortunately, the Tigers are an endangered species. In XX century, the tiger made to the IUCN Red List, the Red Book of Russia, as well as security documents of other countries. As of 2014 prohibited the hunting of tigers in the world.