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-In order to retain this recessive gene, zoos and breeders must continually inbreed father to daughter and father to granddaughter and so on.

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View Stock Photo of Mating White Bengal Tigers In Captivity. Find premium, high-resolution photos at Getty Images.

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-This video gives a good PG image of what big cats in general do when they mate.

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My favorite part in The Lion King. Simba and Nala are finally reunited and have a lot of catching up to do. But now they are all grown up and their friendship has grown into something more.

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-Tigers use employment of an intromittent organ
-Male deposits semen directly into the appropriate female reproductive orifice using an intromittent organ

Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior (2008); CAB International; by Edward O. Price; ISBN-13: 978-1-84593-398-2

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Malaysian Department of Wildlife and National Parks officers display confiscated tiger skins to the media in the northern Kedah state, February 2012. A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching.

A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching, a conservation group warned Tuesday.

Illegal hunting, fuelled by continued demand for tiger parts remains a serious threat to the animal and other endangered wildlife, MYCAT Tracks, an alliance of conservation groups, said in a report.

The Malayan tiger is a subspecies of the great cat and is found in central and southern parts of the Malayan peninsula.

In 2009, the government announced a plan to double the wild Malayan tiger population -- now estimated at just 500 -- by the year 2020.

Conservationists say factors behind the fall in numbers include poaching, declines in prey such as deer and wild boars, and habitat loss due to agricultural development.

But protective measures, among them a ban on deer hunting aimed at preserving tiger food sources, are being cancelled out by continued poaching, MYCAT Tracks said.

"This is evidenced by the discovery of many poaching signs and close to a thousand snares in (key tiger habitat areas) between 2010 and 2011 as well as the arrest of several poachers," it said.

WWF-Malaysia has previously said demand for wildlife parts to be used in traditional Chinese medicine posed a grave threat to tigers and a range of other species.

There were an estimated 3,000 tigers in Malaysia as recently as the 1950s but numbers have steadily declined since.

(c) 2012 AFP

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A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching, a conservation group warned Tuesday. Illegal hunting, fuelled by continued demand for tiger parts remains a serious threat to the animal and other endangered wildlife, MYCAT Tracks, an alliance of conservation groups, said in a report.

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Bengal tigers are an endangered species, we try to mate and repopulate the wild as well as we can.
-Example: Research is being done in India to improve the tiger population there.
-Mating homozygous recessive white tigers to achieve all white progeny will lead to inbreeding depression and loss of genetic variability.
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-Poaching in the wild is lowering the availability of mating partners.
-Male tigers mate with the females in their territory. Female tigers the limiting factor in sustaining the tiger populations.
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-Once the oestrus cycle begins and the female may begin to make vocal cries to attract nearby males.
-Male arrives, a courting process starts.
-The male initiates various howls and whines, to which she responds accordingly. They smell one another, lick and purr while rubbing their bodies against each other.
-Scene from the Lion King
http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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-He will have nothing to do with the female (or the cubs) after mating has occurred.
-Male and female tigers will have various sexual partners throughout their lifetime.

http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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Tiger photo - Panthera tigris - G4310 | Arkive

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Siberian tigers mating - View amazing Tiger photos - Panthera tigris - on Arkive

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-Mating occurs many times over a period of a few days ovulation only occurs when stimulated by mating.
-The male will likely move on to another receptive female for the same purpose.

http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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-Female will begin advertising her readiness by urinating within a particular area with distinctive-smelling urine.
-This lets males know that she will be more likely to accept their attempts to mate with her.

http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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-Oestrus refers to the time in which a female tiger is receptive and likely to conceive.
-Oestrus occurs once every three to nine weeks and is in optimal conception state for three to six days of this period.

http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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-Constant mating throughout the year can happen.
-But mating season is typically November and April.
-Females reach sexual maturity at around three or four years of age.
-Males at an average of four or five years old.

http://www.tigers.org.za/tiger-reproduction.html

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Mating of Bengal Tigers in the wild with commentary

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Tigers Julie (Living with Tigers) and Seatao are mating while JV films and take pictures. Tiger Canyons. More videos: www.youtube.com/sunettefou. Web: www.tigercanyons.co.za