[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Freaky Fana Friday, where every Friday we take a little time and explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, yes, Freaky Fana, Friday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Freaky Fana Friday.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the Great and Peaceful
[SPEAKER_01]: Earth's most powerful land predator land predator mean besides my two fists there's there's is contention for this role and on your right we've covered the other two that kind of compete my left in my right fist do you have any guests who I'm talking about I just did yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: What are the other two that I'm talking about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, the most powerful land creature predator predator predator Okay, land predator because obviously can't be the Bull elephant except not really a predator now.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the thing with so actually on Joe Rogan They said of all animals on earth fight this they all agreed that this would be the animal that won
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a grizzly bear now we've already covered a bear we already covered that one too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the other two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those are the two and then they said this one like a bit what mountain line a tiger a tiger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about tigers today just plain old tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yes, because it's it's kind of a There's some contention with how many species of tiger there are and how many species of tiger are left and
[SPEAKER_02]: I know on the grips of the corn show, we covered the blue tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a Wednesday episode, I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because there's not a lot on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, when we talked about the tigers actually come and blue morphs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where tigers are a nocturnal car or carnivores known for being one of the most iconic and large and the largest of the big cats.
[SPEAKER_01]: They live in a diverse range of habitats across Asia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, and China and Russia, but they can be found, you know, we'll talk about all their habitats, but rainforest, grassland swamps, rocky areas, mountain tops, forests, savannas, and even deserts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, so they crush all the biomes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Highly adaptable animals, uh, continental and pelagic south east Asia, including India, Malaysia, Thailand, Russia, China, and on the Christmas corn soon will cover, maybe even
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll ask out.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been tiger sightings for real.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of tiger sightings actually interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the wild, there'd be about 10 in captivity.
[SPEAKER_01]: There'd be about 20.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about tiger king's captivity?
[SPEAKER_01]: Two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: There.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can get up to 9 feet long.
[SPEAKER_02]: that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you don't think they're actually that big until nine feet long and there are we'll talk about the species of tiger and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But anybody at home wants us to go more in depth into one of the species.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let us know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, because they're all the Tigers are very cool, but really we're really focusing on the Bangle Tiger on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Cincinnati Bangle Tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three to 400 pounds is kind of your typical Tiger weight range.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't be all the way up to eight and even 900 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that what the Tiger King had?
[SPEAKER_02]: Bangle Tigers and all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he had all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we had four of the five living species.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, did they all look very similar?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like size is really the big factor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bangles are the biggest.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just trying to picture in my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I noticed of what he had were bangles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: The colors they can be anywhere from orange, gold, white.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can black or even have brown stripes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like we said, there are extremely rare color morphs like melanistic and even blue blue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Tiger divorce.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Carnivores.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you said diet, everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything's the.
[SPEAKER_01]: All I am going to meet every animal.
[SPEAKER_01]: They will.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can take.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are even.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're one of the few animals that has been shown to pry up on elephant calves.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're really good at sneaking up on elephant calves killing them and running away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then waiting for the parents to give up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why you're wondering why elephants really don't like tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because they'll go after them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so the only like the Asian elephants, the only natural part of they have is tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's alive.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the adults, even, or, you know, some adults are really freaked out by them from that calf fear and other adults just hate them just on one site.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't they just go like chase them off the moment they ever see one or six?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they smell the tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why they panic when they smell the tiger and they start stomping and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cubs are very vulnerable, though, to Asian wild dogs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that tiger cups.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's there as cubs.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're very, very vulnerable.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other predators, other predators will go out their way to seek out to kill their cubs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're to get them with their babies.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not an uncommon practice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, uh, everything from water buffalo or yeah, not water buffalo.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Kate Buffalo will go other way to kill line cubs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we even have some T-rex nest fossils that
[SPEAKER_02]: So same behavior.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's you've seen it for all history that a big herbivore especially will go out of their way to kill carnivore their carnivores babies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes because like you just said get him before their problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can run up to 60 kilometers per hour.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now there's this like I said the number.
[SPEAKER_01]: of species of tiger versus the number of subspecies of tiger is very odd okay it's it's argued heavily it's one of these when we talk about where scientists kind of cut the lanes between species of tiger is it just because they blend so much together yeah and there is there is so much species overlap and they can all still integrate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, but there are, so is it morphological differences or physiological differences?
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So phenotype versus genotype companies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a lot of scientists believe they're just phenotypes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like just environmental changes, really.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but bangles are the biggest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, but Siberian tigers are the biggest, which are a subspecies of Bengal tiger, not their own species.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's technically only two species of tiger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because they could have just been a Bengal tiger that went up north and then just got bigger, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it could be because in my opinion there are five species of tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do agree with that, especially when you see the tigers together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you can really see the difference is just first off the size alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a famous video where the Siberian Tigers coming in with I think four job and tigers Okay, or so the job and tigers are like two to four two to three hundred pounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm It's bangles like 800 pounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just like a Hulk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and they're all all these other tigers are like panicking The one tiger immediately flips on to its back to show its belly right submissive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm And they're like that was the meanest tiger in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, gosh, and he submitted
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... they all are endangered no matter how you cut it mm-hmm very endangered any tigers endangered there are more tigers in captivity than there are wild tigers uh... and there's some states and say statics or certain sorry statistics and say there are more capital tigers in three states in the u.s there are wild tigers wow well that's kind of crazy
[SPEAKER_01]: Now was that before after the Tiger King documented that was before okay so maybe two states now Which like yeah, it's crazy There's great debate over sciences over the number of subspecies and species of tigers Previously it was all way up to nine subspecies and four species
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, most recent scientists have proposed that there's really only two one species of tiger with two main subspecies, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I said, it's highly debated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's highly debated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Panthera tiger's tiger's in Panthera tiger's sub, sub, or sub, not a guy like the game.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a funny game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Panthera tiger tiger is composed of the Bengal tiger, Casping tiger, Siberian tiger, it's out of them trying to tiger Indonesian tiger in Malaysian tiger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So five or six tigers for a panthera, tiger's tiger's.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: For a panthera tiger's synodaka is the job and tiger, bali tiger and some otron tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: But basically they kind of have it broken down into the three small rainforest tigers and small is relative small for other tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they are still kick the butt of any other large cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, just for everybody at home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I guess I don't really thought about that before.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the next biggest cat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you think of Lion King, you know, there's big ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're in prides, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're social, so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I pride of lions would win.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you just think, although they're bigger, you know, Lion, it's the king of the jungle.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the biggest one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Bengals, Siberian tigers are the biggest.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's with Bearman's law.
[SPEAKER_01]: The further away from the equator, you go, the bigger mammals get.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bearman's law.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, Tigers are reason are most link recognizable by their orange for with black or vertical stripes and a white belly.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are ambush predators.
[SPEAKER_01]: They stalk their prey quietly mostly at night before pouncing getting very close.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember why they're orange.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the most part, there are other colors of tiger, but 99% of tigers are orange.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's because they, uh, if I remember right, the color spectrum, they appear green to most other animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that correct?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Most prey animals see oranges green.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why hunters wear orange.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so we can see each other, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so we can see each other, but a prey animal can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, same right same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that dear don't see orange right like most Quadra pads don't see orange very well, so it ends up looking green in their spectrum.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it didn't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's why it doesn't work for turkeys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, when turkey hunting here and that's why they selling hunting, you don't have to wear their orange.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought turkeys also don't like white.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they are color their cones and their eyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can see color so much well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some more well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then deer can't catch it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they can see a zipper off of a pair of pants from like 100 yards away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where deer don't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dear or smell-based, they communicate by a cent-marking of vocalizations.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll grow grunt, hiss, and even meow like a cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a house cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where you should just believe the equalization is used to communicate different things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crazy enough, and they can even produce him for sound to paralyze prey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine seeing giant tiger, you like come across it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's like skinwalker stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like your line.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need pet pets?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: On average, tigers give birth the two to four cubs, which is really high for a large cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tiger Cubs stay with her mom so they're first two years of life and they learned a hundred about six months of age.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So oftentimes with other big cats when the cubs are getting like old enough where they're not depending on mom, they'll start scurrying the edge of mom's territory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there was she won't have as hard a connection with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So on that two year mark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they'll still be kind of there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll even see social interaction still.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most time male cubs go much further away from their mother's territory and that's for event in breeding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, there is two female tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: First time it's ever been documented.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just happened last week as why we're doing this episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, uh, two female tigers are sharing cubbing duties.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's five cubs with one female tiger at a time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're split and they're that I babysitting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: For some of them, I've been documenting any kind of social interaction with like this with tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it just because we never seen it before or nobody, nobody knows.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's like I said, we're fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Need.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we don't know if it's was like more common thing when there were more tigers or if it's if it's because of a so few of them near that desperate that they cannot afford to leave their cubs alone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we don't even know that there's a chance that they're related individuals like other daughter, but we don't know we don't know that's that's probably in my head the most likely thing Because mother and daughter have a more More social interaction long term.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah versus any other tiger interaction.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha Where they will see each other occasionally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's to me that's probably the most likely thing, but I don't know nobody knows
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they have no living natural predators when they're adults.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Their cubs and sick tigers are vulnerable to many other predators will will take advantage of their weakness.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is like other tigers their other predators really not that's not a predator that is territorial thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the eat on, but just a attack that predator is at the animal that's going out of their way to hunt you food.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: So fighting another tiger and dying is different.
[SPEAKER_02]: different term.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there was there was something that used to eat or hunt tigers because they have false ice spots in the back of their ears.
[SPEAKER_01]: So some scientists say it's four other tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some even put like the gigantic pig that gets up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That it was gigantic pig.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's we go out of their way to kill tigers on site.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that false on the back of your so like something sticking up behind them or yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So something sticking up behind them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like they're staring at them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know for or that
[SPEAKER_02]: They look either way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it looks like they have eyes on the back of their head.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like like women.
[SPEAKER_02]: They all have eyes on the back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: The other specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's more of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like my mom had eyes on the back of her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I swear.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somehow, you think that's just their sixth sense to ask me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once you have a kids, your born it like develops historically, there should be several hundred thousand tigers on the Asian continent.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, in the last 100 of the years, they're range as drunk by 95% that's kind of a lot in their population is much less than that number as drunk by much more than the number than 95% Yeah, that's sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably 1% of their formal range 200 years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our former population 20 years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: So either it was really scary 200 years ago or it's just sad that we're
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, tigers are really smart, yeah, they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most of time when people have negative interactions now with tigers, it is tigers that have started eating the livestock or injured tigers or people that take a potshot at tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most tigers don't interact with mountain lions and some other big cats.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a reason like big cats co-avalve with humans.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they know it's just not worth the fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, and that's they're really pushed and that's or they got a grudge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, that's different.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there is 800 miles tiger's traveled to kill a man shot him in the head.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: They will get you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: They remember they're smart.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so you're freaking fun of facts.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are the largest of the big cats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The biggest one on record was 14 feet long and 1,000 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was that a Siberian?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, geez, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: About the same way as a commercial refrigerator.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's imagine that barrel in towards you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wouldn't be barreling towards you.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the scary thing about tigers All the sneaking in is it just you look in it's they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like two feet from you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, imagine Pouncing on you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just seen somebody did a video with that with a T-Rex.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because they had a lot of the same adaptations with the padded feet and everything like that So like a T-Rex Could just be there if it decided to hunt you and you just turn in there's a 16,000 pound animal
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, what if they jumped like hopped like rabbits, and there were super silent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, T-Rexus?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they're big powerful back legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tigers were voted the world's most favorite animal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: 21% of the world's votes came in.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to guess what you took second?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, the panda.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Want to guess what place third?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's dolphins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why ain't pandas up higher on the list?
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause they're not real.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, it's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the worldwide life foundation needs to change there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get why they pick a pandan.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very iconic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody knows what a pandan is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: A tiger would be another good example.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think a tiger would probably better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they should just change their name too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the WWF can have it back.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we wrestle in Federation again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because WWF, the wildlife energy had first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lessons cooler.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it isn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know what show we're on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're already in a mood.
[SPEAKER_01]: Siberian tigers the largest subspecies on average being about 300 kilograms so about 5 to 600 pounds and about 10 feet long.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, the royal bingo tiger from Indian has been said to be much larger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is it like a rare?
[SPEAKER_01]: That and it's yeah, there's some contention there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and the smallest subspecies of tigers is a Somash and tiger the only way about 90 kilograms What's that like 250 pounds?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, 200 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty small.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's the tiger's smaller than me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I Think I could probably wrestle that one Probably yeah, I could
[SPEAKER_01]: considering that the more one still hunts the more you say no the more I'm yet by the half since stuff like that I get in joke old tigers loved to swim they're amazing swimmers in captivity they will dive down several meters they loved to swim in large rivers and stuff like that they are one of the most aquatic large cats they are neat to see swim I've seen really bad stuff yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: Tiger Cubs are blind when they're born.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, that's a freakie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like many other species of cat, they're born with their eyes closed, which means for the first two weeks through life, they explore their environment with just their senses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, maybe we should do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the next fact, maybe why we shouldn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tiger Cubs, at the best of times, have a 50% chance of survival of their first month.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're weedin' out the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, this is because they are so dependent on their mothers.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're extremely susceptible to starvation when they're separate from their mom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, their mom get caught up in anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Aggression caused by other territorial males is also another huge factor for a couple more tallying and humans are the the second largest cause of cut mortality.
[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tiger King.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and we're talking
[SPEAKER_01]: Stripes are like fingerprints of the tiger world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each tiger has its unique pattern of stripes and battles.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's it to recognize them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are many other color variants of tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: White probably being the most popular after the orange.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's even striped a snow white.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a golden tiger.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's blue and there's melanistic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone in Albino one.
[SPEAKER_01]: a true albino as far as I know, no, but that's a numbers game.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did seek freedom, Roy?
[SPEAKER_01]: No tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, just because it's a numbers game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I don't know, but I know it's possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's like, let's say it's one in a million.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're in a million tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Neo wearing near a million tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, you're just not going to be odds
[SPEAKER_02]: Butter popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does, butter popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really, the sentence for a doze by a chemical compound on the urine called to AP, where it leads to same substance that gives fresh buttered popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's yummy smell.
[SPEAKER_02]: Must be the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Benterungs is exact same chemical.
[SPEAKER_02]: Benterungs, P. Because that's why I guessed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the only one that has a weird unique P smell.
[SPEAKER_02]: Butter popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are known to share their hunts.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the most shocking facts is they are known to share their hunts.
[SPEAKER_01]: If the land is particularly plentiful and prey, tigers have been known to share it with other nearby tigers, even allowing for mothers and cubs to eat fresh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So their community.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is unique not only amongst big cats, but most large predators, who tend to be really stingy with food resources.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, yeah, especially for the big guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Normally the big guys come in and push everyone out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tigers can mate with other big cats.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like lions.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, the two tiger hybrids, the result from a lion, is a tiger and a ligar, tiger's occur with a male tiger and a female lion and a ligar occurs vice versa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Both tiger hybrids, you can see in several countries in the United States, cross-breeding always occurs in captivity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rather than in nature, as lions and tigers really do not overlap in the wild today, except for one location in India's garrif forest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, OK.
[SPEAKER_01]: So last place for tigers and lions to live together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my, no bears though.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are bears.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh, sun bears, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I believe it is sun bears.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all these hybrids are sterile.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tigers are extremely, sorry, so are sorry, solitary animals.
[SPEAKER_01]: Despite their good manners with sharing food, tigers do not like being around other animals.
[SPEAKER_01]: They may come together to eat and mate, not to find them alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our don't fret, they are not lonely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tigers like to make good use of their alone time, swimming relaxing and interacting in their environment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Many considered tigers to be so are solitary, but social animals.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very odd for a lot of am behavior, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The closest, the closest we actually have with this behavior are primates, which would be the moose lemur in the orangutan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That are closely related to like this behavior.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they do the same behavior.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're wearing a tanks are fine being by themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't need to be around other or hang a tanks, but if they run into each other, it's not death on first sight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So tigers are like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really territorial males are where the problems come in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like females bump into each other and everything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most time we'll just probably result in them walking away from each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they are the masters of mimicry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've ever wondered your house, or I've ever watched your house kept by the window and seen them chirping like a bird to get a bird's attention.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that house got to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, tigers can also imitate the sounds of prey animals to draw them in and ambush them.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the most noble sounds of tiger can mimic is the call of a sambar deer.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it calls in other sambar deer or other predators.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wanted with that would sound like like being next to Tiger doing that or imitating or mimicking their silent stalkers they can move they can move with no sound the big pads in their feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'll speed though this is a long one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they rarely attack humans?
[SPEAKER_01]: Tiger attacks almost never happen the only place it really happens is in India.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just because they're spilling food all over when they're making their street vendor food.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the tiger's draws them in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so the rest of the world has almost no tiger deaths ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: India averages about 50 tiger deaths a year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is low compared to the elephants that kill 50 people here in India.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeez.
[SPEAKER_01]: They need to alternate tax or due to tigers being surprised and cornered by humans and protecting their cubs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's understandable.
[SPEAKER_01]: With habitat encroachment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's getting bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: All over the world's getting bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, however, there've been a small number of cases or tigers have been more problematic and have constantly stalking eating humans of our most communities.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we did an episode, man, eaters on Cribscorn Patreon, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where we talked about that tiger that ate several villages.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Check out Patron.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a shot or in the face, a broker canines.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she wanted revenge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, she just couldn't eat buffalo anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So people were easier.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is, what do you think a group of tigers as known as?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, pride, but that's lions, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm going to go with pride still.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope, a streak of lions, a tigers, or yeah, yes, sorry, streak of tigers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tigers are one of the oldest mammals species still around today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have altered a lot of early Ice Age mammals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, with the saber to you, tiger, I mean, we still related at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're not.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, just your cats.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, no, it just gets called a tiger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I just figured it was in the tiger family still.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, really?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, just sent.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like grandpa.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not grandpa to the mangletoe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, actually, they're just they're probably on par with each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably developed around the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not one didn't come before the other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Coversion evolution.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not even that because tigers don't have giant canines.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but no, yeah, you just, now you got me on the off, uh, conventional evolution theory puts them about two million years old, which would be about the first human, even early humans emerging from Africa at the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why humans and our tigers have such a long history together, is they co-ov all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's where tigers rarely rarely attack humans we think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Roy been together long enough for they know it's just like not worth it most humans know not to mess with the tiger the most tigers know it's not worth it to mess with humans right yeah oh yeah we were both apex predators really you know it only already mentioned the one there are more there are many many more tigers then there and the captain captain are on the wild right yep there are less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild majority of them found at India
[SPEAKER_01]: uh uh uh uh there are more than 4,000 tigers in Oklahoma.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: The number of tigers rose for the first time in centuries.
[SPEAKER_01]: According to the World Wildlife Foundation in 2016, it went from 3,200 tigers off the wild up to 4,000.
[SPEAKER_02]: So 800 increase, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Almost a 20% increase.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I guess you could look at it like that when the numbers
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, it's not, I mean, percentage of this, they are on the cusp of genetically, not existing on the, on the, on the brink, because what's, you remember the minimum number roughly for a large ramble 100.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you know, into a thousand, it's 3500 3500.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, they're right on the edge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they were under it.
[SPEAKER_01]: What estimates, so they could have been still over at tigers are very sneaky.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true, extremely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they could double their population.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's still you ever have said they're supposed to be like, I don't know, hundreds of thousands.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, two to 300,000 on the Asian continent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just on that, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're a little short.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's there's sneaky.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's 3,000.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just sneaky.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the population of our town.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just that we spread over the continent of Asia.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you need to extrapolate that number out.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just what we know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So now you got a factor in the probability of their sneakiness.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's five extra tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: At least.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I was tigers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Learn more about tires than I knew before, so that's for sure.
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