If the tiger knocked on the door suddenly
Recently in the media there have been increasing reports about the appearance of tigers in human settlements of the Far East, and social networks are full of photos and videos depicting predators living close to humans.
Understand, why is this happening and how to behave when meeting with a wild animal.
Tiger: instruction on self-defense
Fortunately, the occurrence of “man-eating tigers” rather local folklore. The striped predator is dangerous, but careful.
Attacks on humans are very rare and in most cases triggered by the victims
And yet again the tigers came from settlements, we could not ask Rangers, local residents and professionals on security measures.
Our interlocutors were unanimous: if a tiger attacks an unarmed man to survive, the latter is unlikely to succeed. The rare lucky ones escaped due to luck or fantastic exposure, for example, fell to the ground and did not move, despite the fact that the tiger was clawed back. Or they were lucky: the first tiger was interested in dropped a backpack, allowing its owner to climb the tree. Next was a dog who became prey instead of a person. Predator scared the sudden sharp sound and the man could leave. Not to escape, namely to leave. Runaway goal for the tiger — prey. As someone who turns his back.
In the nursery of Moscow zoo specialist predators Tatiana Demina warns that in order to avoid the aggression of a tiger, do not look him in the eye. But reporters, of course, interesting to check. One look and powerful-a sudden, neproschityvaemym throw a sweet and calm a second ago cats. Thick bars of the cage immediately seem unreliable, roar of the tiger is not alone. But adults. And just a zoo.
The main conclusion — try tiger in the woods to meet. Tiger attacks.
The trail of the tiger
Scientists and experts of natural reserves with some degree of irony to perceive the increased attention to the emergence of predators in the territory of the people, because the troublemakers of the public are mainly young males, who are just exploring a new space.
As a result, they go on a suburban highway and other highways, which, in turn, violate the natural movement of wild cats. The role played by the high population density in the region.
“The point is not that the tigers come to people — they are just in the process of resettlement and research space including facing the space that have already mastered the people,” — said the candidate of biological Sciences, researcher of Institute of problems of ecology and evolution them. A. N. Severtsova the Russian Academy of Sciences and researcher at Kronotsky reserve Anna Yachmennikova.
According to her, a partial solution to the problem is to create special conditions for wild animals that will allow them to move freely through the pipelines, railroads and tracks and to reach out to people.
“People have their own way, and have their tigers. When the tigers have their there are no roads, they go to the ones who built the people”, — emphasizes Anna.
Feed me!
To force the tigers to leave their original habitat and wander into human settlements and the lack of food. “If there is a prosperous food supply, as a rule, the animal stays in place, if not, the animal begins to settle. They go searching for any place where more of ungulates,” — says the employee of proo “Center tiger”, zoologist Catherine Belitchenko.
Also attract predators may livestock. According to the text of the Amur tiger conservation Strategy in Russia, such cases accounted for 57% of the total number of registered interactions of animals with man.
Special “love” these wild cats feed the dogs: tiger can spend hours to accompany the person with the pet until his dwelling, and neither the owner nor the dog will not detect the presence of the beast
Sometimes the stalking lasts for several days.
Often the mighty predators come to the attention of people in very poor condition, caused by a deep wound or exhaustion. According to Anna Yachmennikova, in this case the animals come on the road and the road so as not to waste your efforts.
“Animals who are afraid and roads, and people go to the people at the very least, when it did not have the strength to climb through the snow,” she notes.
In addition to the adults in the settlements and the forests of the Far East regularly find cubs left without a mother. The exact cause of this phenomenon is difficult to determine. According to Catherine Belitchenko, the small predators can be orphaned, not only due to poachers: “We do not exclude the fact of poaching, but we do not exclude the possibility that the mother may die of natural causes, such as infection.” In addition, the wild are no exception attacks male tiger to a female with kittens. In the end, the season of fertility is highly increases the possibility to detect single cubs.