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This place consists of nursery, photo taking
with tiger cubs corner, tigers with African people and tiger
education room.
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Visitors will meet with sow feeding tiger cubs in this room, which is an experiment at Sriracha Tiger Zoo. The sow will feed the newly born cubs after feeding by their own mother for seven days. From the experiment, it is found that the cubs grow 20-25 percent faster then usual when feeding by the sow. |
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Experience a rare chance of carrying and feeding tiger cubs in
your arm and add this memorable picture to your album.
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Exhibit valuable information on tiger's development, species,
behavior and a lot more.
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Learning about tiger
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| Tiger is found on earth for more than 2 millions years ago. In the earliest era, tiger has long fang which is called smilodon. Smilodon is the origin of various kinds of tiger today. They are put into 4 categories. | |
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Panthera: Big size tiger that roar, such as lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar. |
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Felis: Small size tiger, such as cat, leopard cat, jungle cat. |
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Neofelis: Medium size tiger that cannot roar, and there is only one kind, which is clouded leopard. |
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Arsinarnics: Species that cannot keep its claw, and the only species is cheetah, which is the fastest animal on earth. |
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| Majority of tigers has similar size and hair color. There are some differences that can be categorized into 8 kinds of subspecies. (IUCN, 1994) | |
| 1. Bali tiger * (Panthera tigris balica) | |
| 2. Caspian tiger * (Panthera tigris virgata) | |
| 3. Indo-Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) | |
| 4. Javan tiger * (Panthera tigris sondaica) | |
| 5. Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) | |
| 6. Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) | |
| 7. South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) | |
| 8. Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) | |
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There are 8 species of tiger, but 3 species have extinct, they are Bali tiger, Caspian tiger and Javan tiger. These tigers are distinguished by size, color and body pattern. The biggest one is Sumatran tiger and the smallest one is Bali tiger. Tigers that live in the north have lighter hair color than those in the south. For example, Siberian tiger has the lightest hair color, while Bali tiger has the darkest color. Each subspecies has different stripe and pattern. For example, South China tiger has fewest stripes, while Siberian tiger and Indo-Chinese tiger have the most stripes. Bali tiger, Javan tiger and Sumatran tiger live on island and have the most stripes. Furthermore, some species of tigers have longer hair with different pattern on the body and head size.
At present, Bali tiger, Caspian tiger and Javan tiger
have been extinct. Tigers found in Thailand are Indo-Chinese
tiger.
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