How do tigers spend the winter?

Tiger is a large cat, very strong and powerful, and it is a typical mountain forest animal, ranging from tropical rain forest and evergreen broad-leaved forest in the south to deciduous broad-leaved forest and coniferous broad-leaved mixed forest in the north. There are more than ten subspecies, which are distributed in all kinds of species in the world. So how does the tiger spend the winter in the cold winter?

How do tigers spend the winter

Tigers are hardy animals and do not hibernate. They will continue to look for food in winter, and their habits are not much different from their usual habits. In addition, tigers will change their hair and increase fat to protect themselves from the cold in winter. Tigers often live alone, only in the breeding season, male and female live together, there is no fixed nest, mostly wander in the mountains and forests to find food, can swim, can not climb trees.

Tigers have a large range of activities, generally 100-400 square kilometers, with the largest reaching more than 900 square kilometers. The range of foraging activities can reach tens of kilometers in the north, and the distance is short because there is more food in the south of Xishuangbanna. China has the largest number of tiger species among the 14 tiger-producing countries in the world, while India has the largest number of tigers in the world.

Second, the living situation of tigers

In the middle of the 20th century, due to deforestation and excessive hunting, the number of tigers declined rapidly, and the number of tigers in India once decreased to hundreds, but with the attention and legislation of various countries to protect tigers, coupled with the crackdown on private hunting and smuggling of tigers, the tiger population recovered rapidly, but due to human activities and smuggling and other reasons, the tiger population is not likely to increase significantly. In addition, with the continuous expansion of the scope of human activities, the subspecies of tigers such as Caspian tiger, Javanese tiger and Balinese tiger have become extinct.

The current situation of tigers in China should not be ignored. The most critical situation is the South China tiger, followed by the Siberian tiger. South China tiger is a subspecies endemic to China. In the 1950s and 1970s, South China tigers were hunted and killed as "harmful animals". In 30 years, about 3000 South China tigers were killed, resulting in the extinction of South China tigers. Now there are only about 20 left and are in urgent need of protection.

The above is some related knowledge about the tiger. If you want to know more about it, you can carry out in-depth reading and investigation to contribute your modest efforts to the protection of the tiger.