Siberia's Stripes of Death | Nat Geo Wild — Transcript

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1. 0:01the Siberian
2. 0:05tiger it stretches nearly 10 ft
3. 0:08long and weighs up to 700
4. 0:12lb making it the largest cat on the
5. 0:17planet less than 500 Siberian tigers
6. 0:21live in the
7. 0:22wild approximately 400 of these stalk
8. 0:26Russia's Birch
9. 0:27forests the rest are dispers first
10. 0:30throughout Eastern China and North
11. 0:35Korea the Siberian inhabits a domain
12. 0:39much colder than other tiger
13. 0:43habitats here temperatures can plunge to
14. 0:45minus 40°
15. 0:49F but the Siberian has developed
16. 0:52remarkable adaptations for survival year
17. 0:57round large paws prevent the cat from
18. 1:00sinking in the
19. 1:05snow in warmer months widely spaced
20. 1:08Stripes camouflage the Tiger in its
21. 1:12surroundings as the seasons
22. 1:15change pale orange fur allows it to
23. 1:18blend into the
24. 1:24forest in the winter its white stomach
25. 1:27and chest help keep the tiger out of
26. 1:29sight
27. 1:30night and keep it
28. 1:33warm it's longer and thicker than fur of
29. 1:36warmer weathered Tigers such as the
30. 1:38Sumatran and the
31. 1:41bangle all these assets prove invaluable
32. 1:45for a cat that spends almost 8 months in
33. 1:48the
34. 1:52snow coat adaptations conceal the tiger
35. 1:56as it stalks prey
36. 2:01it moves in silently from the side or
37. 2:07rear strong hind legs launch the cat up
38. 2:11to 20 ft in one Leap directly on top of
39. 2:14its
40. 2:17prey Siberians hunt day and
41. 2:22night although not truly nocturnal this
42. 2:25cat is more alert and active at
43. 2:28night it's equipped with a special
44. 2:31reflecting layer in its eye called the
45. 2:33tapam
46. 2:35lucum located behind the retina this
47. 2:38film increases incoming light making
48. 2:41objects appear
49. 2:42brighter giving Tiger's night vision six
50. 2:46times better than the humans and
51. 2:48allowing it to Ambush
52. 2:50prey even at
53. 2:57night 3in K9 teeth sever major arteries
54. 3:02and Shear the spinal cord while powerful
55. 3:05jaws crush the
56. 3:09windpipe and although they are armed
57. 3:11with some of the largest canine teeth of
58. 3:13any landbased
59. 3:14carnivore only one in 10 attempts lands
60. 3:18a
61. 3:20kale so a tiger often Gorges after
62. 3:23bringing down
63. 3:25prey eating over 60 lbs of Flesh in one
64. 3:31sitting it uses small hooks on its
65. 3:34tongue called papal to cut and rip every
66. 3:37bit of Flesh from the
67. 3:41bone but human intrusion makes it harder
68. 3:45for this great Predator to find a
69. 3:51meal every year logging and human
70. 3:54settlement destroy millions of Acres of
71. 3:58forest the ti 's hunting
72. 4:03ground and poachers kill almost 85% of
73. 4:07the remaining tiger
74. 4:19population authorities confiscate and
75. 4:22burn poacher's Contraband to prevent its
76. 4:24Sail on the black market
77. 4:31human intrusion doesn't just endanger
78. 4:34the
79. 4:36Siberian it also puts us at
80. 4:41risk when we move deeper into this great
81. 4:43predator's domain we increase our
82. 4:46chances for a deadly encounter