{"id":2,"date":"2012-04-03T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-04-03T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T07:03:23","slug":"about-tigers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/about-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"About Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, The tiger is currently critically endangered.\u00a0 The tiger is the largest species of Felidae (Mazak, 1981).\u00a0 They have a reddish orange to reddish ochre coloration, with dark stripes that are generally vertical.\u00a0 Underparts are white, with a large skull (Mazak).\u00a0 Tigers are muscular, with powerful forequarters.\u00a0 The adult length ranges from 2200 to 3000mm, with females being somewhat smaller.\u00a0 Hairs are short\u00a0 around 7 to 20mm on the back and 15 to 35mm on the belly (Mazak).\u00a0 In zoos, tigers have lived for 20 to 26 years, which also seems to be their longevity in the wild.\u00a0 Currently, the Bali tiger, Caspian tiger, and Javan tiger are the only species of tigers that have gone extinct.\u00a0 The South China tiger is the most endangered of the remaining subspecies.<\/p>\n

Tigers were found throughout Asia, but during the 20th<\/sup> century, they have become restricted to isolated pockets.\u00a0 Habitat loss and intense poaching of tigers and their prey, coupled with inadequate government efforts to maintain tiger populations have resulted in a dramatic range contraction in tiger populations (Dinerstein et al., 2007).\u00a0 Tigers now occupy 7% of their historical range, and in the past decade, the area occupied by tigers has decreased by as much as 41 percent.\u00a0 While the tiger as a wild species will most likely not go extinct within the next half-century, its current trajectory is catastrophic.\u00a0 If this trend continues, the current range will shrink even further, and wild populations will disappear from many more places (Dinerstein et al.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, The tiger is currently critically endangered.\u00a0 The tiger is the largest species of Felidae (Mazak, 1981).\u00a0 They have a reddish orange to reddish ochre coloration, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12543,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/akeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}