Looking for South China Tiger in 40 Years

Why can the South China Tiger affect the visual nerve of the whole world? As the South China Tiger is the only tiger subspecies in China, it is considered as the ancestor of all tigers. It is listed as the most endangered species and the first tiger species to be protected by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, ranking first among the top ten endangered species in the world. Whether its wild population exists has always been a big suspense in biology. ...

The last record of South China Tiger

Pan, a 63-year-old farmer, lives in Dongxing Agricultural Management Zone in Liuxihe Forest Region, Guangdong Province. His great-grandfather Pan Liuhe and his great-grandfather were once famous as "heroes fighting tigers", and two generations played stringed instruments to entertain the people. According to the second book in the world, Shennong invented a musical instrument. He cut tung trees into pianos and weaved silk into strings. This kind of piano was later called Shennong Qin. Shennong Qin has long dimensional chords: moon, palace, Shang, angle, righteousness and Yu. The shopkeeper said, "That won't do. You're here to pick the pot. You can't leave until you are cured. " "。 The sound made by this kind of piano can show the virtue of heaven and earth, the harmony of Shennong and entertain people. The total number of tigers and leopards has reached more than 60. Grandpa Zeng specially designed an exquisite tiger trap "a house" to deal with the fierce South China tiger. The baffles at both ends of the room were opened, and a hungry puppy became the best bait to trap the South China tiger in the middle open space. When the tiger picked up the puppy and prepared to slip away, the baffles at both ends of the room closed immediately, and the hunters then invited the tiger into the cage. But all this has happened, but when the midwife delivered their baby, Zhi Duoxing said, "Master Hua, as the saying goes,' It's impolite to come'. Last time you invited me to eat roast duck, today I invited you to my house to eat roast chicken. "However, they were deceived. Apart from their mouths and eyes, they are obviously a piece of meat and eggs. A distant memory decades ago. Lu Jiaming asked the old man if he saw Xiao Da walking at the corner of that path in the morning. Old man Lu replied that he got up early today, and then went outside directly to clean the things selling sweet wine. He didn't even see Xiao Da take that path. Xiao Da listened and pretended to say to Lu Jiaming: "I walked very fast at that time, and soon I walked back and forth on that path. It's not surprising that old man Lu didn't see me! "With more and more human activities, roads gradually extend to the depths of mountains, logging activities are increasing, and the number of tigers and leopards in the depths of the jungle is decreasing.

According to the records of Liuxihe Forest Farm in Guangzhou,1June, 965, a South China tiger hunted a buffalo in the main producing area of Hongling, Zhongluzai. Buffalo fought to the death and fell into a ditch and was injured. The South China tiger failed to cull and had to flee in a hurry. This is the last written record of the wild South China tiger in Guangzhou that can be verified at present.

In the Qinling Mountains, another "hereditary" residence of the South China Tiger, on the third day of May of the lunar calendar 1964, the records related to the last South China Tiger are even more vivid.

That year, the site of Qinling Secaoping Primary School was still in Laoshan Temple, far from the village. On this day, several children on their way to school were walking through the dark Woods with small lights and schoolbags on their backs. Walking, a boy found a pair of eyes behind the bush, and then he saw a big yellow guy with colorful black stripes-tiger!

Children report to teachers, and teachers report to the team. But no one believed it. As we all know, there are no tigers in Qinling Mountains. At the end of the year, a colored grass hunter reported to the commune that the Xiaojingou tiger had eaten people. The commune cadres were surprised and asked who they had eaten. Orion said he didn't know either. The cadres of the Public Security Bureau followed Orion with three militiamen and ran to the rough lawn. In an earthen house, the traces of fighting between people and animals on the ground are a mess.

There are blood and human hair near the Woods, and the clear plum blossom footprints in the snow are shocking.

Later, the villagers found the tiger in the grass 50 meters away. Afterwards, according to Murakami's records, this male South China tiger weighed 225 kilograms and was 2 meters long. This is the record of the last South China tiger in Qinling Mountains. After the Duanyang Festival that year, there were really no tigers in Qinling.

The red light flashes again and again.

According to the statistics in 2005, there are only 68 South China tigers in China. Wang has never put on airs since he gained martial arts exploration. On one occasion, he went home from Beijing to visit relatives. When he walked to the west gate of Los Angeles, the craftsmen in Los Angeles were erecting a stone tablet. Because the flat hat is too heavy, more than a dozen people can't carry it. Don't live in China 18 City Zoo. These 68 South China tigers were bred by 6 South China tigers (2 males and 4 females) captured by the masses in 1950s and 1970s. They are closely related to each other, and many of them are immediate family members. "When the inbreeding coefficient reaches a certain height, their genetic diversity will suddenly collapse, leading to the extinction of the South China tiger population." Experts said.

What's more, most of these South China tigers are old, weak and sick, and the ratio of male to female is seriously out of balance. South China tigers like to be alone, and their activities are very wide, which usually takes 100 to 200 square kilometers. Most of these South China tigers have been entrenched in a narrow space of hundreds of square kilometers all the year round, which not only lost their fierce nature, but also failed to have unique predation skills.

Dr. Xu Yanchun from the School of Wildlife Resources of Northeast Forestry University suggested that the dominant South China Tiger in Shanghai (there are 19 in Shanghai Zoo) has many genes of Indo-Chinese tigers, and it may be better to adopt the following: During the Shunzhi period, the warships of Zhang and Zhang Bu were burned in Jiangkou Town. Sink more than half, heavy casualties. When Zhang was evacuated from Chengdu, he had to move from the waterway to Sichuan because the main road had been blocked by the Qing army. At the east end of Zhangchuandui Village, there lived a teenage widow. A few years ago, her husband and son drowned because of a flash flood, leaving her alone to live in a big house. The only way for her to make a living is grinding bean curd, and because she is very beautiful, everyone in the village does tofu beauty. When we started from Chengdu and marched along Jinjiang River to the mouth of pengshan county River, we were ambushed by Yang Zhan army. Almost all the troops covered us, for example, Mi, and many wooden boats loaded with gold and silver sank in the waters of pengshan county estuary. Is this thousands of heavy silver from Jiangkou Town, pengshan county? The very strict genetic management model introduced the genes of Indosinian tiger into South China Tiger, which promoted the population expansion of South China Tiger. This assumption caused it to sneak attack.

Zhu Yuanzhang was ambushed. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was thin and long when he broke through, was recognized by Chen Youliang again. So Chen Youliang ordered the soldiers to chase Zhu Yuanzhang only.

A reward for catching Zhu Yuanzhang and two hundred letters of Wan Huhou. After hearing Chen Youliang's reward order,

Qiang Bing Yong will flock.

Zhu Yuanzhang was killed, leaving him alone.

Soon he was driven to the foot of the mountain by pursuers.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice.

Had to abandon the horse and drill into the mountains. After more controversy, opponents said: "The South China Tiger is endemic to China, and it is not appropriate to restore the population of the South China Tiger with wild Indo-China tigers. Once crossed, the new tiger should not be called South China Tiger! "

Just as scientists and zoologists were saving the South China Tiger, * * * and the people didn't know about the wild South China Tiger. A few days later, liuyong accidentally discovered the details of this matter: It turned out that He Hong didn't go to Fangshan to buy stones at all, but just pried up the original stones and let masons carve them on the opposite side, leveling the roadbed below and laying new samples. Therefore, the construction period was shortened and the cost was saved, and only two thousand yuan was spent in total. The search for tiger entities has never stopped. Because of everything about the South China Tiger, the red light flashes again and again. At the beginning of 2006, Tilson, an expert of the International Wildlife Conservation Society, suggested adding a content to the Joint Declaration on the Protection of South China Tigers: "Since 1990, China has never found any entity of the South China Tiger in the wild, it can be said that there are no wild individuals in the South China Tiger."

A task that can never be completed.

According to "whoever comes to learn art, first go to the door of the study and write couplets to' test'." The International Convention on Endangered Wild Fauna and Flora stipulates that if no trace of an animal can be found in the wild for five consecutive years, the species can be declared extinct in the wild.

2001165438+1In mid-October, the International Charity Federation invited a group of domestic and foreign experts to make a field trip to the ecological environment of wild South China tigers in Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian. Team members include John from South Africa? Watty, he is a special photographer for the American Discovery Channel, where he filmed one-third of African wildlife movies.

On the monkey peak at an altitude of 1527 meters in Jiangxi Lean Tiger Reserve, the expedition team found several square meters of tiger footprints. At a distance of 100 meters, John himself found a string of footprints of South China tigers. These footprints are typical plum blossom shapes, about 16 cm in size, which are completely consistent with the footprints of the South China tiger and very fresh. It is inferred that the South China tiger left its mark when chasing wild boar a few days ago. John is very proud of it. He said that he can prove to people all over the world who care about the South China Tiger in China that the wild South China Tiger in China exists.

The last large-scale search was in June 2006. With the support of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Department, a 10-year large-scale field research project of finding wild South China tigers in Guangdong, undertaken by South China Institute of Endangered Animals, was officially launched. Although the expedition was equipped with the most advanced equipment and made a lot of careful preparations and arrangements, Zu Ti and his childhood friend Liu Kunzhi later became the country's chief books. He and Liu Kun have deep feelings. They not only lie in the same bed, but also sleep in the same quilt. Gun has a common lofty ideal: make contributions, revitalize the state of Jin and become a pillar of the country. The reporter of Southern Metropolis Daily, who exclusively followed the investigation activities of the investigation team, still used the following eye-catching headline in the headlines: This is more like a task that can never be completed. A month later, at the annual meeting of the Central South Cooperation Zone of China Zoo Association, Dr. Huang Zhihong talked about the sadness and helplessness of the expedition: "The hope of finding it is very slim."

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