Sumatran tigers saving the species

Great title for a great picture, very funny

I am really enjoying all your pictures from the tierpark and the zoo, the quality on them is excellent.

Thanks, Kiang. I enjoyed my Berlin Weekend very much, I had luck with the wheather and with good sightings of many rare species. It was my tiger-weekend, because all tigers at the zoo and the Tierpark were phantastic active. Unfortunately, the Indochinese Tigers at the Tierpark were in a cage, so it was impossible, to photograph them.

I was happy, to see Bao-Bao again, I hope, he will have some more years...

First of all to this parir: They had till now no surviving offsprings. So let's keep fingers crossed for this year.

Tarsius said:

Unfortunately, the Indochinese Tigers at the Tierpark were in a cage, so it was impossible, to photograph them.

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For one, they are P.t.jacksoni (malayan) and two: It is possible At last on monday

http://www.zoochat.com/141/malayan-tiger-berlin-tierpark-141308/

The male (Jambi?) is already very well represented so they could try and swap him for another one?

@Animal. Sure its possible, if you have the right camera...My camera is too small for that.

Not everbody is accepting jacksoni as an own subspecies, because there is just a very, very small genetic diffrence, which is absolutly normal. So no human is 100 % gentical identical...So some scientist don't accept jacksoni, as like as the Director of Berlin Zoo, and I agree with him. And don't forget, he is a collector of animals....

I accept if you accept jacksoni, so please accept my own opinion also. Thanks.

Nevertheless, these tigers are very rare in human care, and I wish the Tierpark and Zoo good luck to breed them !

I just answered here http://www.zoochat.com/59/indochinese-tiger-140492/#post304211 to that topic, but just to add:

Of cause it is like that with humans, because if there where ever human subspicies they are all long gone, because the populations have all mixed.

And you can be such a big animal collector, but that dont mean you should denie scientific facts.

Like I said, a very big controversity....

i can say that their son is having nice urges as well