This graceful animal is a feline.Of all the Malayan tiger subspecies - the smallest.He has a very flexible body and a long powerful tail.
The tiger jumps help agile legs with low, but wide forelegs.On paws has five toes with retractable claws grasping.
The beast is quite heavy skull, on which there are ears neat form.Especially eye-catching Malayan tiger.His large eyes with round pupils inspire fear and animals, and people.
It should be noted that the "big cats" see the world in color.Nature endowed tiger strong jaws with large fangs.This helps the predator firmly grab the victim and strangle her.Language of animal consists of sharp tubercles.Due to this, the tiger is easily stripped from the skin and meat production.
Other structural features of the body
Malayan tiger weighs 100 to 120 kilograms.The length of its body with the tail up to 2.4 m. In the wild "big cats" live from 15 to 25 years.They live in the fields with the average vegetation, forests and abandoned agricultural plantations.As a rule, selected areas with a small number of people.
How beautiful Malay tiger!Photo shows the bright colors of his body.It is full of orange and orange hues.The belly of the beast white and fluffy, and the pattern of black stripes on the body of a predator in common with the Indonesian view.
Lifestyle
Malayan tiger - beast of twilight and darkness.His vision in this time even more acute than in the daytime.Scientists say that the animal's eyes to see 6 times better than men.This allows the "big cat" can easily search out their prey.
Predator long sneaks up behind the victim, considering the further tactics of behavior.Unsuspecting victims very soon ambushed and then attacked from the rear.In most cases, such a hunt is successful.
Tiger fairly hums and immediately begin the meal.It can consume 18 kg of meat in one sitting.The food he often serve as wild boars and bulls, bears and livestock.
Malayan tiger likes to spend a lot of time in the water.It is an excellent swimmer!Ponds - a real salvation for the animal from heat and pesky flies.
among relatives beast is trying to convey a mood of body movements.If the animal is experiencing anger, then his ears take a vertical position, the tail tense and rectified, and fangs bared.
Tiger of Malaysia in its territory
In most cases, the representatives of this kind of single life.Only female devotes much time to their offspring.It takes most of her life.
Malayan tiger possessive.Males and females mark their plots and secrets glands make scratches on tree trunks.On labels can determine the sex of the animal, age and physical health.Strangers are not allowed animals into their territory.The exception is a female in heat.
Reproduction beast
Malayan tiger itself comes to the territory to the female.Before marriage games tigress long rolls on the ground and not let the male.He waits patiently as she freely nashipitsya and release their aggression.
Pets sport for several days.But except for one male tiger can mate in the same period and with others.Because of this, the female pups may appear different from the Tigers.
It is interesting that the male does not feel his father's feelings towards kittens.On the contrary, the tigress protects the offspring of a male as he is able to kill the cubs again to persuade the partner to the marriage games.
Malayan tiger.Description offspring
pregnant females lasts 103 days.For delivery tigress chooses a quiet place - dense thickets or cave.In one litter usually 2-3 cubs.
they are born deaf and blind, weighing from 0.5 to 1.2 kilograms.After 2 weeks after hatching young are able to eat solid food.But the real hunt awaits them at 17-18 months.
Cubs stay with their mother for 3 years.Then they leave the territory for independent existence.Females leave the tigress mother a little later than men.
People and wild animal
Throughout history, people have hunted tiger.For example, there is a legend of how Alexander the Great went into the little-known lands and conquered by a dart of a wild beast.
Ancient Korea specially trained people to hunt tigers.It was allocated a ritual during hunting should remain silent.For this hike jacket sewn from a blue linen fabric and produced the same color turban decorated with numerous beads.
Hunters were cut from the tree guarding amulets.Before going to the men fed tiger meat.Such people are valued in Korea.They are not even allowed to pay state taxes.
At the beginning of 19-20th centuries, the hunt for the "big cat" was of a mass character among the British colonialists.They are also interested in the Malayan tiger."In English" I organize such hunting - participants paraded on elephants and gaur.
to lure the tiger travelers used the goats or sheep.Sometimes hunters loudly beating drums to drive the animal out of the thick forest.Of those killed were making stuffed tigers, which have long adorned the homes of aristocrats.
animal skins also served as material for the manufacture of souvenirs and decorative objects.Tiger bone is credited with magical properties, and they are still in demand on the black markets of Asia.
Currently hunt for "big cat" banned, but poaching still persists in many areas.Malayan tiger is also not differ peaceful behavior.
Some of them prey on livestock.There are cases of cannibalism.In 2001-2003, in the forests of Bangladesh canines Malayan tiger killed 41 people.
