Sunday, 7 November 2010
Pictures From the Calgary Zoo
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author's last name: N/A Author's First name N/A Title of Document: What is the structual adaptation of a siberian tiger?
Document date: Unknown URL:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_structural_adaptations_of_a_siberian_tiger Date of visit: October 27th 2010
Author's Last name: Blank Park Zoo Author's First name: Blank Park Zoo Title of Document: Siberian Tiger
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.blankparkzoo.com/en/explore_the_zoo/meet_the_animals_2/siberian_tiger.cfm Date of visit: October 28th 2010
Author's Last Name: Calgary Zoo Author's First name: Calgary Zoo Title of Document: Tiger, Amur (Siberian Tiger)
Document date: Unknown
URL:http://calgaryzoo.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=52&animalID=168 Date of visit: October 28th 2010
Author's last name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: What is a siberian tiger's niche?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_siberian_tigers_niche Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Why are Siberian tigers endangered?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_Siberian_tigers_endangered Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: WWF's Tiger Conservation Strategy
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.animaladoptions.org.uk/wwfs-tiger-conservation-strategy Date of visit: November 1st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Why Are Siberian Tiger Endangered?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.gotpetsonline.com/siberian-tiger/picture-white-siberian-tiger/why-are-siberian-tiger-endangered.html Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
Author's First Name: SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
Title of Document: Physical characteristics and Special Adaptations
Document date:Unknonw
URL: http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/tiger/physchartiger.html
Date of visit November 1st 2010
Author's Last Name:N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Amur tigers
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.amur.org.uk/tigers.shtml Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Images:
Document date: Unknown URL:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_structural_adaptations_of_a_siberian_tiger Date of visit: October 27th 2010
Author's Last name: Blank Park Zoo Author's First name: Blank Park Zoo Title of Document: Siberian Tiger
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.blankparkzoo.com/en/explore_the_zoo/meet_the_animals_2/siberian_tiger.cfm Date of visit: October 28th 2010
Author's Last Name: Calgary Zoo Author's First name: Calgary Zoo Title of Document: Tiger, Amur (Siberian Tiger)
Document date: Unknown
URL:http://calgaryzoo.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=52&animalID=168 Date of visit: October 28th 2010
Author's last name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: What is a siberian tiger's niche?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_siberian_tigers_niche Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Why are Siberian tigers endangered?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_Siberian_tigers_endangered Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: WWF's Tiger Conservation Strategy
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.animaladoptions.org.uk/wwfs-tiger-conservation-strategy Date of visit: November 1st 2010
Author's Last Name: N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Why Are Siberian Tiger Endangered?
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.gotpetsonline.com/siberian-tiger/picture-white-siberian-tiger/why-are-siberian-tiger-endangered.html Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Author's Last Name: SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
Author's First Name: SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
Title of Document: Physical characteristics and Special Adaptations
Document date:Unknonw
URL: http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/tiger/physchartiger.html
Date of visit November 1st 2010
Author's Last Name:N/A Author's First Name: N/A Title of Document: Amur tigers
Document date: Unknown
URL: http://www.amur.org.uk/tigers.shtml Date of visit: October 31st 2010
Images:
How Calgary zoo is helping
The Calgary zoo has been preserving and maintains the Siberian tiger by fixing environmental problems such as threatening of being endangered. Studying the habitat and the diseases that could affect or even kill the Siberian tiger or another animal. Studying breeding behaviour and increase the number of the young in order to increase the population and getting away from being endangered. Reintroducing captive breed animals to the wild so that they can mate and repopulate. Studying the crucial factors of population and why it is decreasing.
The methods that the Calgary zoo have done to preserve Siberian tigers have been offered to other animals such as the burrowing owls, Northern Leopard frogs, Vancouver island Marmots, swift foxes, and the whooping crane. A blue bird nest box was made in order to reduce predators and to research their behaviour.
The methods that the Calgary zoo have done to preserve Siberian tigers have been offered to other animals such as the burrowing owls, Northern Leopard frogs, Vancouver island Marmots, swift foxes, and the whooping crane. A blue bird nest box was made in order to reduce predators and to research their behaviour.
Saturday, 6 November 2010
10 COOL ABILITIES
The Siberian tigers are so large that they can grow up to 4 metres and weight almost about 32 kg. Their weight might slow down themselves when catching their pray, but they have mighty teeth that are called cannies. These cannies are 12 cm long and can bring down deer and wild boar while shearing. After it caught its prey, an adult can chow down on about 27 kg in one sitting but they can do this by their back teeth. These back teeth are called carnassials and allows the tiger to slice up large chunks of meat. In fact, the Siberian tiger don't chew, they simply swallow. However, in order to find their prey and not allow them to spot them, you need a good camouflage. With the stripes on their body, it'll take forever to hunt the tigers down. However, the patterns are broken when hit by light thus allowing them to hide very well. During the hot days, the Siberian tiger can be found in water. The Siberian tiger tend to cool off in the water in fact, the Siberian tiger loves swimming that it can swim uo to 4-6 km. The soft looking paws allows the Siberian tiger to leap and jump without making a sound and stalking thus making it extremely stealth. On their paws, they have four claws that are called hindclaws. These claws are used for killing large prey or defending against another tiger's attack.
The continuous characteristics are:
The amount of eating because all Siberian tigers have certain diets
The cannies and the carnassials because they will grow up to the maximum size when its an adult
The stripes and the broken pattern because there are born with it
Found in water and swimming in water because those are their kind of hobby and a way to survive from the heat.
Swallowing large chunks of food because that is the way Siberian tigers have been eating ever since
Soft paws because all tigers are born with this feature.
Hindclaws are also a feature that all cubs are born with.
The discrete characteristics:
The length and the weight because they have a tiger may be smaller or bigger and the habitat depends on the weight.
The continuous characteristics are:
The amount of eating because all Siberian tigers have certain diets
The cannies and the carnassials because they will grow up to the maximum size when its an adult
The stripes and the broken pattern because there are born with it
Found in water and swimming in water because those are their kind of hobby and a way to survive from the heat.
Swallowing large chunks of food because that is the way Siberian tigers have been eating ever since
Soft paws because all tigers are born with this feature.
Hindclaws are also a feature that all cubs are born with.
The discrete characteristics:
The length and the weight because they have a tiger may be smaller or bigger and the habitat depends on the weight.
Niche
A Siberian tiger is one of a special top predator which means they hunt anything that has meat and consists of no natural enemy such as things that will kill besides human. Another niche of their is to protect their cubs and teach them to hunt. throught this it will pass on their genes causing more variation. This is important since the Siberian tigers are extinct and need to be repopulated. It is located in the Amur Its habitat is in the Amur valleys which is how Amur Tiger got its name. Its habitat is mainly a very unique forest in Russia. During the summer, the forest are dense and very moist but in the winter the forest are cold and covered in snow. The terrian is mainly rugged and very mountainous. It is a narrow niche because mostly everything in Earth is made up of meat thus making it hunt anything it wishes too. 
IMPACT
We humans have allowed the Siberian tigers to be endangered but it might have been a good thing. The Russians hunted and poached the Siberian tigers but they needed to find them, so they decided to destroy the habitat in order to find them. By destroying their habitat, such as clearing forests for agriculture making the Siberian tigers have nowhere to go and were easily hunted and poached. Not only Siberian tigers are hunted for fur like the fashion industry, they are also hunted for bones and body parts. Their body parts are used in many Asiatic folk medicines. These tigers had been extinct in China and Korea due to over hunting.
DANGER
Extirpated: To remove or destroy completely
Endangered: specie that is close to being to be extinct
Threatened: A way when a specie is in danger by population dynamic
Special Concern: A type of endangered and threatening for a specie which can occur by either declining of population.
The Siberian tiger is rated as the endangered.
Strategies are being used to protect Amur tigers or the Siberian tigers from being extinct. The conservative from the Russian and the WWF organization, prevented the poaching of Siberian tiger and is increasing population to 400 and had made it stable for ten years. With the success on convincing the Russian government by WWF, there have been three national parks that these tigers can roam free in their habitat.
Friday, 5 November 2010
The Structural and Behavioural adaptation
The two structural of Siberian tiger are their long legs, which allows them to jump farther then their prey and even catch up to its prey. In addition, they have a flexible backbone that allows them to hunt their prey quickly and react to what might the prey would do such as fight back or try to trick them.
The behavioural adaptation for the Siberian tiger are that they are very territorial causing them to mark territories. They mark their territory by using their urine, feces, and scratch marks on trees to show the boundary. In addition, the size of a Siberian tiger’s territory can depend on their amount of food resources. It is possible for a one male Siberian tiger to have a territory big as Calgary.
The behavioural adaptation for the Siberian tiger are that they are very territorial causing them to mark territories. They mark their territory by using their urine, feces, and scratch marks on trees to show the boundary. In addition, the size of a Siberian tiger’s territory can depend on their amount of food resources. It is possible for a one male Siberian tiger to have a territory big as Calgary.
Siberian Tiger
This blog is for the assignment of A.E.Cross junior high school, 9-06 Science class. This blog is specifical for the research that I have picked, that I can research and can be found in the Calgary zoo. All information in this blog will be referenced by the Calgary zoo and the website that I have used.
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