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[Liru Kaulitz]

~Ѳρɛяαтισи Ƥ.Δ.Ƨ.Ƭ.~
"Don't let our roars become legend."


Thank you, Howling in the Rain, for your help with the name and slogan! I appreciate it! :3

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The Siberian Tiger. A beautiful beast, but the kind we tend to look at in books and think 'how pretty. A tiger'. But the pretty tigers won't be here for long if we don't take action and try to help them. Siberian tigers are endangered, so there aren't many left. We need to give these creatures a boost or else they might be lost forever. Every penny counts as we fight for the rights of our lovely Siberian tiger. So join us now, and help out one of nature's most precious treasures.

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Rules
1. This thread is for tiger-lovers. If you have anything at all against this thread, please just don't post. Harmless debates are fine, just no having any arguements. It's simple. If you don't agree, don't post.
2. Try to stay on topic. I understand posting-block, but let's just try.
3. Be kind to other users. Which means no saying offense things, being disrespectful, cursing, or spamming (that's bad for all of us).
4. If you have any suggestions, banners, or anythign at all to make this thread better, PM and I'll see what I can do.
5. Thank you for taking part and reading the rules! <3
6. Oh, and I almost forgot. When posting images of dead tigers (if you do) make sure they aren't too bloody or gorey.

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Supporters
1. Liru - Admin
2. Tala Lakota
3. Howling in the Rain
4. Blacklonewolf
5. Nuskly
6. Cool Blue47
7. Δтнɛиιαи Ɖяαɢσи
8. Tusk
9. Silverfang
10. Moonkissed
11. Dotted~Spots

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Learn about Siberian Tigers
Wikipedia on Siberian tigers
National Geographic on Siberian tigers
Tigers in Crisis
WWF on Siberian tigers

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Donate to Siberian Tigers
The Tiger Fund
Wildlife Conservation Society
Causes.com: Save the Siberian Tiger

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I, [Username Here], pledge to help protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can.

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Diet
In the southeast Trans-Caucasus, the Siberian tiger's main prey was wild boar, though it occasionally fed on roe deer, red deer and domestic animals such as dogs, pigs, sheep, and cattle in winter. Tigers in Iran ate the same species with the addition of gazelle. The Siberian tiger's prey in Turkmenia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was primarily boar, as well as Bactrian deer. In the lower Amu Darya River, tigers sometimes preyed on golden jackals, jungle cats, lynx, and dholes. On the Zhana-Darya and around the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, as well as boar, the tiger fed on saiga, goitered gazelle, wild horses, Mongolian wild ass and argali. In Tajikistan and other regions of central Asia, as well as Kazakhstan, tigers frequently attacked dogs, horses and rarely bactrian camels. In Baikal, the Siberian tiger fed on wild boar, roe deer, Manchurian wapiti, moose and livestock.

In the Amur region, the tiger preys primarily on Red Deer and Wild Boar, which make up 65-90% of its diet in the Russian Far East. Other important prey species are Manchurian wapiti, moose, Siberian roe deer, sika deer, musk deer and goral. It will also take smaller prey like lagomorphs (hares, rabbits, and pikas) and fish, including salmon. Tigers may prey on both Brown and Black Bears when ungulate populations decrease.


Habitat
In the southeast Trans-Caucasus, the Siberian tiger was mostly confined to the forests of the Talysh lowlands in areas where streams and reed thickets along marine lagoons were adjacent. In Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the tiger favoured river and lake basins, densely grown reeds, plume grass or tugai forests consisting of poplar, oleaster and willow. The Siberian tiger was sometimes encountered in montane belts, in summer ascending up to the permanent snowline in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Tigers were captured in fir and juniper groves at heights of 2,500-3,000 meters above sea level in Kirgiz, Trans-Ili and Dzhunarsk Alatau. Generally, the western Siberian tiger populations thrived in areas with an abundance of wild boar and Bactrian deer, large water supplies, dense thickets and low snow cover.

The Siberian tiger in the Far East is mostly confined to low mountains, having been displaced by humans from lower areas. Its most common habitats are mountain river valleys and pads overgrown with pine and oak, as well as among mountains teeming with deciduous shrubs or in oak or nut-tree groves. It travels only through dense spruce forests, and is attracted to rocky areas and forests abundant with wild boar, wapiti and moose. In times of food scarcity, it can travel through village outskirts and hay fields. In areas of heavy snowfall such as the Primor'e region, the tiger avoids areas of deep snow due to the scarcity of game in such areas, as well as the frost causing the tiger's presence to be more conspicuous. There is evidence that the Siberian tiger crossed into Alaska over the Beringian land bridge during the Pleistocene. It is possible that the Siberian tiger could be reintroduced to North America as part of Pleistocene rewilding.

Genetics
Several reports have been published since the 1990s on the genetic makeup of the Siberian tiger and its relationship to other subspecies. One of the most important outcomes has been the discovery of low genetic variability in the wild Far Eastern population, especially when it comes to maternal or mitochondrial (mtDNA) lineages. It seems that a single mtDNA haplotype almost completely dominates the maternal lineages of wild Siberian tigers. On the other hand, captive cats appear to show higher mtDNA diversity. This may suggest that the subspecies has experienced a very recent genetic bottleneck caused by human pressure, with the founders of the captive population being captured when genetic variability was higher in the wild. However, it may well be that the Siberian tiger population has always shown relatively low genetic diversity, due to a small number of founders colonising the Far East. Work with the preserved remains of the now extinct Caspian Tiger (P.t. virgata) has shown that the two subspecies share a comparatively recent common history, at least when it comes to mtDNA lineages. It appears that tigers colonised central Asia at most 10,000 years ago, and the modern Siberian stock may be the result of a few Caspian Tigers subsequently wandering east via northern Asia.

New genetic analysis revealed that the extinct Caspian Tiger lives on in the Siberian Tiger. Researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom collected tissue samples from 20 Caspian Tiger specimens kept in museums across Eurasia. Afterwards, researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in Frederick, Maryland, sequenced parts of five mitochondrial genes. The Caspian Tiger's mitochondrial DNA is only one letter of genetic code separated from Siberian Tiger DNA, while it is readily distinguishable from the DNA of other tiger subspecies. This indicates that the Caspian and the Siberian subspecies are really one. The scientists have concluded that the two are so similar because both were descended from the same migrating ancestor. The ancestor colonized Central Asia via the narrow Gansu Corridor (Silk Road) from eastern China. The researchers suggest that through the early 20th century, Caspian and Siberian tiger populations intermingled, but hunters subsequently isolated the two groups. This resulted in the Siberian population splitting off from the Caspian population only in the past century.

~Taken from Wikipedia. All text is (c) to them.

[Liru Kaulitz]

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[Tala Lakota]

I, Tala Lakota, pledge to help protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can.

[peachie.]

I, Howling in the Rain, pledge to help protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can.

Don't forget me!!! :3

[kishinuma]

I, blacklonewolf, pledge to help protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can.

i dont love them i like them but i do want to save them as much as i do for other animals:)

[Tala Lakota]

i love them ^_^
but then i love every animal . . . except my grandpa's cat

[kishinuma]

ya same with me i just accutally i love tigers to now that i think about it

[Nushkly]

I, Nushkly, pledge to help protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can. ^^

[sidereus]

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I, Cool Blue47, pledge to try to protect Siberian Tigers from becoming extinct, and I will help in any way I can.

Although their pelts are amazingly beautiful, people shouldn't have started poaching them and drive them to near extinction.
If they were not poached so heavily, they would have been plentiful in so many areas.