Sumatran Tiger
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Scientific Name: Panthera Tigris
Sumatrae
Common Name: Sumatran Tiger
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Continent/Country origin from:
Asia/ Indonesia
Year added to Endangered
Species List: 1996
Numbers remaining: ~350 in wild
(down from 1,000 in 1980’s)
Range of Sumatran tigers
Weight: - Male: 110- 140 kg( 220- 310 lbs.)
-Female: 75- 110 kg(170- 240 lbs.)
Height : Up to 60 cm (1.9 feet)
Length : Up to 250 cm (8.2 feet)
Skin : Have heavy black stripes on its orange coat
Life Span: 10-15 in wild; 20 in captivity
Habitat:
- island of Sumatra in Indonesia
- Remain patches of forest, and also in rivers
Biomes:
- Tropical Broadleaf Evergreen
- Peat Swamp
- Freshwater Swamp Forest
- Most important: Rainforests: Climate- Hot and wet
year round, high humidity(averaging about 80%)
Average
Temperature
Precipitation
Role in food web:
- They eat other mammals: deer , rabbits, boars,
badgers, and wild cattle
- Carnivores= 2nd, 3rd, 4th level consumer
- hunt at night-hide in push then jump out on its prey
- Top of the food web
Reproduction:
- Breed during winter season
- Gave birth to 2-4 blind cubs about 103 days later
- Sexually mature: Male -4 years olds
Female- in 3 years olds
Its effect on its ecosystem:
- Keep population of deer, wild boars, and guar in check
- Without tigers
theses prey species would expand
ravage on theirs food sources- vegetation
smaller
insects would not survive
these insects will eat crops
vital food could be lost to human
Large-scale habitat loss (Deforestation):
- Human cut down forests for trees to make
supplies: paper, build houses and other
constructions, and for farmland
Habitat fragmentation-splitting up habitat and small
areas not sustainable for hunting/survival
Loss of prey
not enough food for tigers
Conflict with human:
- Habitat loss = move to other place for food = troubles
with humans because wandering into villages
Illegal trading: Overhunting
- National-through black market, as well as international
- Trade bone, fur, and skin for money
- Chinese herb uses parts of the Sumatran Tiger for medicine
sell tiger cubs for money
1992:
500
1978:
1000
1986:
650
1993:
450
Previous Effort/Current Effort:
- WWF
-Tiger Protection Unit patrol helps keeping forests safe
by removing poachers’ traps and snares
- Educate people how to live with tiger
- Help tiger to have a protected area: Tesso Nilo in 2004
- In 201o, added 6 priority landscapes to the National
Tiger Recovery Program
- Identify corridors that needed protection by using
camera traps to figure out the distribution as well as
habitat
For the first year, the government should make more
laws that make transportation of tiger become harder.
- By air, sea, or land
Then for the next three years, put undercover cop in
some of the black markets to find who is trading the
tigers
- Stop the process at its start
For the next 3 years, we should adopt more Sumatran
tigers to the zoo
- Established the captive breeding program
- Create the best condition to help the tiger to have
exponential growth
- Later on, return them to the wild.
For the last 3 years, we have to keep watching, and
recording the population of the tiger to make sure
that they are not decreasing
- Helps family who has been living depending on
selling tigers
so they’re not going to hunt tigers again
- If they continue to do it, raise the fine that they
will be charged if
they get caught( go to jail possible)
WWF:
http://worldwildlife.org/species/sumatran-tiger
IUNC red List:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15966/0
Tiger Facts:
http://www.tigers.ca/Tigerworld/W3A1.html
Minnesota Zoo:
http://www.mnzoo.com/conservation/conservation_his
torySumatranTiger.asp
Sumatran Tiger Trust:
http://www.tigertrust.info/sumatran_tiger_home.asp