Three young Bengal tigers were noticed in the National Park in Thailand. The animals come from one litter and are currently about six months old. This valuable discovery – Bengal Tigers threatens extinction, and only over 4,000 individuals remain in the world.
On Wednesday, a unique news was published on the social media of the Kaeng Krachan National Park. One of the cameras monitoring the life of wild animals registered the female of the Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in the company of three young individuals.
The first such recording
For the first time, the park's guards noticed a mother with one young on a recording captured by a camera with a photo trap last year. Further tracking the fate of the female turned out to be impossible due to the downpour, which in the middle of last year hit Thailand. Only now employees have been able to recover recordings from the rain of cameras. On one of the recordings of July they observed three tiger -played tiger.
“This is the first time we managed to register a tiger raising three young,” said the director of the National Park Kaeng Krayan, Mongkol Chaipakdee. – We estimate that they are now about six months – he added.
The National Park announced a competition for names for toddlers.
Threatened species
In the Kaeng Krachan National Park located near the border with Mjanma there are six adult Bengal Tigers – two males, two females and two individuals whose sex is unknown. Their observations are rare – these predators shun people, and their numbers in the world do not exceed 4.5 thousand. The species was inscribed as threatened to the red list of the International Union of Nature Conservation (IUCN).
This is not the only good news for this genre that flows from Thailand. In January, in the KUI BURI National Park, employees noticed an adult Bengal tiger. According to the Thai authorities, this was the first observation of this species in this park for over a decade.
Source of the main photo: Kaeng Krachan National Park@Facebook