The New Year of the Tiger has just arrived, and the good news from the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park is that five new Siberian tiger babies have been born, and they come to "worship the New Year" with the tiger mother.
The infrared camera video image in the picture, taken from December 2021 to January 2022, the female Siberian tiger named "Chunni" by researchers, appeared in front of the infrared camera for the first time with its two baby tigers. In the snowy fields, the mother tiger walks calmly and calmly patrols the mountains, while the two young baby tigers are dazed and cute, waddling and walking close behind.
One of the cubs, who seems to have a strong interest in the infrared cameras deployed on the side of the road, repeatedly approached the camera alone without his mother, making curious actions such as sniffing, licking, and "selfie", which brought the joy of the festival to the scientific researchers watching the screen.
Another infrared camera video was collected around January this year, the tiger mother "Erya" also brought out her three cubs for the first time, the picture was captured in the early morning low light state, it can still be seen that its three cubs are round and well-nourished; during the day, the "Erya" mother and son four tigers are photographed in the forest at a distance from the camera.
Feng Limin, deputy director of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard Monitoring and Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, and Feng Limin, associate professor of Beijing Normal University: In fact, for tigers, breeding can be carried out all year round under normal circumstances, but for the Siberian tiger may have a small peak of reproduction in winter, that is to say, when winter is approaching.
According to experts, the visual age of the five tiger babies is about two or three months old. In the wild, when a female tiger is found to be a mother, her cubs are often more than two months old.
Feng Limin, deputy director of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard Monitoring and Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, and Feng Limin, associate professor of Beijing Normal University: Because the tiger has just been born, within the first week, it basically closes its eyes, and then gradually opens its eyes, in this process it is very fragile, at this time the tigress will hide this little tiger. Only after the tiger grew up for about 2 months did the tigress start taking it out for activities.
It is understood that the number of wild Siberian tigers in the mainland has shown a continuous growth trend, and the birth of more and more tiger babies can be described as a step closer to the prosperity of the tiger family. At the same time, experts gave another monitoring result: the survival rate of tiger babies is also greatly improved.
Feng Limin, deputy director of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard Monitoring and Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, and Associate Professor of Beijing Normal University: According to our long-term monitoring data, the survival rate of The Siberian tiger cubs is about 33%, which means that a female tiger gives birth to three cubs, and only one cub can live to adulthood. After the establishment of the Tiger and Leopard National Park, as of now we have found that the proportion of Siberian tiger cubs that can survive adulthood has increased significantly by more than 50%, which means that one of the two can be fed, and the tigress can feed it into adulthood.
Feng Limin pointed out that in the 14,000 square kilometers of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, more than half of the area has been active in the Siberian tiger, and more and more tiger babies will be born in the Tiger and Leopard National Park in the future.