Indian Tiger
India: Did you know that Indian Tigers are pretty much, well… one of the most… extinct? Because in India, you know how it gets really cold in winter?
समाधिBot: Mm-hmm. In the north.
India: Yeh. Some people have to poach them.
समाधिBot: Why do they have to poach them?
India: To wear their fur. But, there are a lot of bad bacteria in India, like in the drains. And sometimes tigers get poisoned by those.
समाधिBot: Oh no! They should avoid drinking out of the drains in India.
India: Mm-hmm. And the baby tigers could get hit by a car.
समाधिBot: I read that there are 2,500 that still exist. That’s not very much… for a whole species. This one looks pretty tough though.
India: Mm-hmm. I’m pretty sure that big cats mainly mark their… or when they wanna get a mate, they mark some… a glan of something, but… I forgot what, but they leave it sometimes on rocks and trees, or they… they scratch on trees, to let a mate know that they’ve been here.
समाधिBot: And does the mate follow the scratch marks?
India: Or, I’m pretty sure that they don’t really do that. But I’m definitely sure that they use some sort of glan of… well, whatever that is. And then they just follow it, I guess. But with snow leopards it’s different, because they do that, and then they sort of bump their sides up against the rock that they’ve marked. Well, Himalayan Snow Leopards.
समाधिBot: They have a good sense of smell, that bumping their rump up against a rock would do the trick.
India: Yeah…
