Tiger Hunt Antelope (Remix)

A South China tiger, a young antelope, its mother & sibling, at Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, battle for survival..

For detailed description of this event, see the text accompanying the longer version of this video "Tiger's Amazing Hunt": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTzNY82WJvs

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[adamchou]

Very interesting project. Good to know that this is going on. I wonder though, how (in)effective is training them in this habitat? I'm pretty certain their natural habitat is nothing like this. For instance, I'm sure their normal prey can't run as fast as blesbucks. Also, their stripping patterns are probably completely ineffective in this environment. Also, aren't tigers usually found in forests? I'm pretty sure hunting in a forest is vastly different from hunting on the plains.

[SAVECHINASTIGERS]

The tiger is a very adaptable and resilent animal, they live across the snow of the Siberian Winter, the dense tropical rainforest of South East Asia, the deep jungles of India, it hunts in mangrove swamps. It even survived in the caspian desert, where it hunted primarily on wild pigs. With that said, there is actually not much concern over the issue of adaptability. These tigers are adapting well, and are fully capable of hunting on their own as of now.

Thank you for your concern. =)

[PTigris7]

The reason is simple. These antelopes(blesbucks) are prey and the tigers are predator, this is just a normal hunt. If you wish to save every antelope then all predators would starve to death. Lions, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs will all starve.

These are south china tigers, they are extinct in the wild since 2002 and only 60 of them are left in Zoos(all in China), which one do you think requires more help from us?

Experts predict that by 2010, south china tigers will go extinct completely.

[PTigris7]

If you want to feel sorry for something, feel sorry for the South china Tiger, they were hunted till they go extinct in the wild. And all 60 of them left in captivity are descended from 6 wild caught founders in 1955, so all of them are very inbred.

They are in grave danger of extinction, they are now considered the most endangered animal in the "top 10 most endangered animal" list.

So who would you want to save? The South China Tiger needs help now, and this is the only way to save them.

[pragneshr63]

ranchhod

[bigkusi]

aaww the mother risked her life to save the little one...

[xxxCRAZYLOVExxx]

they should of put humans in there instead....jk

[SAVECHINASTIGERS]

The reason why they stopped/slow downed in breeding in captivity was because they are inbred! As mentioned, they were all descended from 6 founders, therefore many of them now are infertile due to inbreeding.

Our project is very successful in the breedinf of these Studbook Chinese tigers perhaps due to the fact that they are living in natural environment which facillitates better breeding behavior and habits.

[myrmecophilous]

Is that so? What about these tigers here? Are they from the same genetic lines? No wonder the ones in captivity stopped breeding.

[JongeWolf]

its good to learn them to hunt. its the only way to save it. those blesboks arent worth less than the tiger, but in the wild they would be hunted by a tiger too. thats not against nature

[thraciensis]

I meant, the researchers should not allow the blesbuck's to be hunted, since there seemed to have some fences or may be electrical poles I am not sure. So I though they were released there just to catch those specific antelopes. Now I believe you that it is not so. Thanks for clarification

I fully support the conservation effort of South China tiger, but this also has to be applied to other tiger sub-species & other felids, as well.

[SAVECHINASTIGERS]

They are not guinea pigs. These Tigers have proven themselves to be efficent hunters. The 42ha camp consist of Blue/black wildebeests, impala and other African Game, but the tigress just happened to pick to prey on the blesbok.

She had a choice, and today she chose the blesbuck. There are also days where she picked wildebeests and impala, we have seen that but have no filmed such footage.

So again, these blesboks are not guinea pigs are genuine prey items for the tigers.