A netizen asked me an interesting question today. He asked: How do tigers hunt or solve food problems after pregnancy? As we all know, male tigers won't help? .
Seeing the messages from netizens, I was immediately attracted by this question. Before, most netizens asked who was better, the lion or the tiger? Who is better, cheetah or leopard?
To tell the truth, few people really think about this problem. As a top predator in nature, tigers naturally don't have to worry about eating and drinking in a healthy state. When they are old, they can spend the rest of their lives collecting carrion. Only the tigress is pregnant. How does she solve the food source? This question has never been mentioned before. Let me answer it today.
Tigers, like most cats living alone, don't care about males after mating. Although more and more studies have found that lynx males who live alone will also take care of females and cubs, for tigers, it is rare to find that males will do so for the time being, so more often it is up to females to solve it themselves.
Tigers are warm-blooded animals. It must keep eating to maintain the necessary energy supply for the body. Therefore, in order to prevent the mobility inconvenience caused by pregnancy, the tiger's pregnancy is very short, only three and a half months from conception to delivery.
Except for the short pregnancy time, most wild animals are not as inconvenient as humans after pregnancy. Even in the middle and late stages of pregnancy, tigers still maintain strong mobility.
Tigers are not obvious in the early and middle stages of pregnancy, and even the human eye can't tell whether they are pregnant. It was only in the last 10- 12 days that the mother tiger's stomach gradually bulged and showed a pregnant state. At this time, tigers can still hunt, but in the 3-5 days before giving birth, they lose most of their hunting ability and starve for three to five days.
Tigers, including most carnivores, have one characteristic, that is? Tibetan food? When the food is abundant, many wild animals will kill more prey, and when they can't finish eating, they will hide for a rainy day, so pregnant tigresses sometimes hide food.
In addition, in the last few days of pregnancy, tigers will find a safe place to give birth, which is often a prey-rich area to ensure that their cubs have enough food to survive after birth.
In addition, I believe everyone knows a little about the news that tigers prey on dogs. Compared with wild animals, it is relatively easy to prey on wild animals such as domestic animals and domestic dogs, so tigers with poor hunting ability during pregnancy sometimes pay attention to domestic animals such as dogs.
Therefore, we don't have to worry that the tiger will starve to death after pregnancy. Even without the care of male tigers, they don't have to be hungry all the time. I'll be hungry for three or five days at most.