Diet:
South china tigers are carnivores and like large ungulates (animals with hooves) and often kill wild pigs with the occasion of the hog deer, muntjac, and the grey langur. Some of the small native animals in the south china tiger’s habitat like the porcupine, hare, and peafowls form as small but effective part in their diet. Because their habitat is often invaded they have grown to prey on local livestock. Also because of their endangerment they used to prey on animals like the muntijak, wild pig, serow, tuffed deer, and the sambar. When they hunt they normally choose to strike behind or on the side of the animal from as close as they can get, they then kill it by grabbing its neck and the drag it to the cover of a nearby tree or shrub. If the quick strike is not easily obtainable they will chase down their prey but prefer the survive attack there are other predators that will try to steal or scavenge the tiger’s meal they must eat their food very quickly and may consume the meat of 18-40 kilograms at one time (40-88 lb), that though is depending on it size and the available meat.
Habitat:
The South China Tiger mostly stays in the eastern and central part of china where there are dense jungles and a good water supply. Several other tigers also used to live there like the Bengal tiger, Siberian Tigers and the Indochinese tiger but have long since gone.
Behavior:
Most South China Tigers travel alone and are rarely seen in groups except when mating, after mating the gestation period is about 103 days (three months) and normally a litter of 1-5 cubs are born but most of the time only 2-3 live toil adult hood. At six weeks they can leave the den and start to explore, at eight weeks they start to train for hunting and learn different techniques that their mother teaches them. By 18 months they catch their own food and by 24 months they are independent.
In the wild most tiger will live to about 15 years of age and about 20 in captivity. Also as of march 1986 17 zoos kept 40 purebred tigers including 23 males and 14 females which were not born in the wild
Characteristics:
as of now the South China Tiger is one of the world’s most endangered species and only about two dozen are left wild in the world and some people believe them to be already extinct in the wild
Facts:
South china tigers are carnivores and like large ungulates (animals with hooves) and often kill wild pigs with the occasion of the hog deer, muntjac, and the grey langur. Some of the small native animals in the south china tiger’s habitat like the porcupine, hare, and peafowls form as small but effective part in their diet. Because their habitat is often invaded they have grown to prey on local livestock. Also because of their endangerment they used to prey on animals like the muntijak, wild pig, serow, tuffed deer, and the sambar. When they hunt they normally choose to strike behind or on the side of the animal from as close as they can get, they then kill it by grabbing its neck and the drag it to the cover of a nearby tree or shrub. If the quick strike is not easily obtainable they will chase down their prey but prefer the survive attack there are other predators that will try to steal or scavenge the tiger’s meal they must eat their food very quickly and may consume the meat of 18-40 kilograms at one time (40-88 lb), that though is depending on it size and the available meat.
Habitat:
The South China Tiger mostly stays in the eastern and central part of china where there are dense jungles and a good water supply. Several other tigers also used to live there like the Bengal tiger, Siberian Tigers and the Indochinese tiger but have long since gone.
Behavior:
Most South China Tigers travel alone and are rarely seen in groups except when mating, after mating the gestation period is about 103 days (three months) and normally a litter of 1-5 cubs are born but most of the time only 2-3 live toil adult hood. At six weeks they can leave the den and start to explore, at eight weeks they start to train for hunting and learn different techniques that their mother teaches them. By 18 months they catch their own food and by 24 months they are independent.
In the wild most tiger will live to about 15 years of age and about 20 in captivity. Also as of march 1986 17 zoos kept 40 purebred tigers including 23 males and 14 females which were not born in the wild
Characteristics:
as of now the South China Tiger is one of the world’s most endangered species and only about two dozen are left wild in the world and some people believe them to be already extinct in the wild
Facts:
- Is known by many names like the Amoy Tiger, Chinese Tiger and the Xiamen Tiger
- Its scientific name is Panthera Tigris Amoyensis.
- No official biologists has seen a south china tiger since the early 1970s