乐生活History records Sichuan "tiger leopard is like a glamorous gourd, crossing over the house, overweight buildings, grabbing its people, will be seriously injured and killed, that is, abandon, not eat too much." The tiger mentioned in the book is about South China tiger, Panthera tigris, also known as Xiamen tiger, Chinese tiger or South China tiger, which is the only unique species in the territory. Living in the south of China.
South China tiger is a medium-sized tiger with a slender body and a slender abdomen. It is closer to the direct ancestor of the tiger. It is considered to be an ancient tiger species. Compared with other subspecies of tigers, they may have the least number of stripes, with short and narrow stripes on their fur, larger stripe spacing than Bengal tigers and Northeast tigers, and often rhombic stripes on their sides. They mainly hunt about 15 to 200 kilograms of hoofed animals, including wild boar, Sumen antelope, water deer, muntjac and so on. Sometimes they also hunt primates on the ground. Male South China tigers attack larger prey, such as black bears and Malay bears.
They mainly inhabit broad-leaved forests, coniferous-broad-leaved mixed forests and dense shrubs below 3,000 meters above sea level. They are typical forest animals. In the past, South China tigers were found almost everywhere in China, with the largest number. But in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, they were massively hunted. Although they were banned by law after 1977, their numbers were not enough to recover. The last wild South China tiger was shot in 1994. There was no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of the wild population and was suspected of extinction in the wild.
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