title: [Specific features of feeding of the Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Carnivora, Felidae) in a densely populated locality (with reference to Bol'shekhekhtsirskii Reserve and its environs)].
abstract: Specific features of feeding of the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) in the Bol'shekhekhtsirskii Reserve located in a densely populated locality (only 15 km to the north of it is the city of Khabarovsk) have been investigated. For a long time (1992-2000) the diet of tigers consisted 100% of wild animals, although the accessibility of domestic animals, dogs, in particular, was high. From 2000 to 2007, in their feeding, the proportion of dogs increased (up to 47%), and the proportion of wild animals decreased (50.8%). Tigers attacking dogs were physically weakened (broken fangs, wounds, inflicted by humans, diseases). Thus, even in a densely populated locality, the tiger's diet includes domestic animals only at exposure to different negative factors.
mesh_terms: D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D004032:Diet; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011156:Population Density; D012800:Siberia; D013552:Swine; D046010:Tigers; D014070:Tooth; D001503:Ursidae