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While tigers’ distinctive pattern and generally bright orange and black fur may be highly identifiable to humans, it actually serves a very specific, albeit unexpected purpose in the animal ...
The Laohu Valley Reserve was created in 2002 out of 17 defunct sheep farms, [3] [4] [5] and efforts to return the overgrazed land to natural status are ongoing. The South China tigers at LVR for rewinding are kept confined to a tiger-proof camp complex of roughly 1.8 square kilometers, with other areas of the reserve being used to protect native South African species.
It has a unique mtDNA haplotype due to interbreeding with ancient tiger lineages. [12] [27] [28] It is extinct in the wild as there has not been a confirmed sighting since the 1970s, [1] and survives only in captivity. [15] Indochinese tiger formerly P. t. corbetti (Mazák, 1968) [29] This tiger population occurs on the Indochinese Peninsula. [17]
It is darker in fur colour and has broader stripes than the Javan tiger. [6] Stripes tend to dissolve into spots near their ends, and on the back, flanks and hind legs are lines of small, dark spots between the regular stripes. [10] [7] The frequency of stripes is higher than in other subspecies. [11]
Patterns can form for other reasons in the vegetated landscape of tiger bush [88] and fir waves. [89] Tiger bush stripes occur on arid slopes where plant growth is limited by rainfall. Each roughly horizontal stripe of vegetation effectively collects the rainwater from the bare zone immediately above it. [88]
Photographs of skins of Caspian and Siberian tigers indicate that the main background colour of the Caspian tiger's fur varied and was generally brighter and more uniform than that of the Siberian tiger. The stripes were narrower, fuller and more closely set than those of tigers from Manchuria. The colour of its stripes was a mixture of brown ...
The Euphorbia of deserts in Africa and southern Asia, and the Cactaceae of the New World deserts have similar modifications (see picture below for one of many possible examples). [225] Sunflower: some types of sunflower and Pericallis are due to convergent evolution. [226]
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