新世纪西虎的体重新记录

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                 Tracking tigers through the cold Russian winter



                        CFC professor’s research is helping to preserve

                                   one of the world’s top predators

                                              by Jason D.B. Kauffman



Working with large carnivores has given Mark Hebblewhite many exciting stories about

wild landscapes and the wild animals that live there. Close to home, the Assistant Professor of

Ungulate Habitat Ecology at UM’s College of Forestry and Conservation, in the Wildlife Biology

Program, has researched top predators like mountain lions and gray wolves.



And while that work has been highly rewarding for this native of Canada, it’s been his more

recent research efforts with a ghost-like denizen of the forests of the Russian Far East that

have really become the highlight of his career. There, north of Korea and sandwiched between

northern Japan and China right on the Sea of Japan, what is arguably the planet’s greatest

remaining predator stalks its prey where the northern boreal taiga mixes with southern

deciduous oak forests.



Here in this rich habitat the world’s remaining 400 Siberian tigers cling to existence. The

subspecies, which is more accurately called the Amur tiger after the Amur River basin, is the


largest of all the world’s largest cats. The Amur River, the tenth longest river system in the

world, drains this tiger stronghold.

Last January, Hebblewhite got to do something few wildlife biologists have been fortunate enough to experience:   track a large, radio-collared adult male tiger through its habitat in the Russian Far East. Now nearly a half-year later, he still gushes about the experience.  Hebblewhite’s Russian counterparts have  nicknamed the massive 220-kilogram  (nearly 500 pounds) tiger “Sheriff.”
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西虎加油。<br /><br />http://www.cfc.umt.edu/newsletters/CFCNewsletter.pdf
第十页

                 Tracking tigers through the cold Russian winter



                        CFC professor’s research is helping to preserve

                                   one of the world’s top predators

                                              by Jason D.B. Kauffman



Working with large carnivores has given Mark Hebblewhite many exciting stories about

wild landscapes and the wild animals that live there. Close to home, the Assistant Professor of

Ungulate Habitat Ecology at UM’s College of Forestry and Conservation, in the Wildlife Biology

Program, has researched top predators like mountain lions and gray wolves.



And while that work has been highly rewarding for this native of Canada, it’s been his more

recent research efforts with a ghost-like denizen of the forests of the Russian Far East that

have really become the highlight of his career. There, north of Korea and sandwiched between

northern Japan and China right on the Sea of Japan, what is arguably the planet’s greatest

remaining predator stalks its prey where the northern boreal taiga mixes with southern

deciduous oak forests.



Here in this rich habitat the world’s remaining 400 Siberian tigers cling to existence. The

subspecies, which is more accurately called the Amur tiger after the Amur River basin, is the


largest of all the world’s largest cats. The Amur River, the tenth longest river system in the

world, drains this tiger stronghold.

Last January, Hebblewhite got to do something few wildlife biologists have been fortunate enough to experience:   track a large, radio-collared adult male tiger through its habitat in the Russian Far East. Now nearly a half-year later, he still gushes about the experience.  Hebblewhite’s Russian counterparts have  nicknamed the massive 220-kilogram  (nearly 500 pounds) tiger “Sheriff.”
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西虎加油。