What Is The Stripe Method? Is That Work For Individual Tiger’s Identification?

In The Earlier When The Project Tiger Start In 1970s , The Indian Forest Department Created The Method Of Pugmark Identification To Distinguish Between Tigers And Arrive At An Estimate Of The Number Of Tigers In A Park. What Is The Pugmark? It Has Been One Of The Most Popular Ways Of Counting Tigers. Each Tiger Is Known To Leave A Distinct Pugmark On The Ground And These Are Different From The Others In The Big Cat Family. Photographs Or Plaster Casts Of These Pugmarks Are Then Analysed To Assess The Tiger Numbers. Study Of Pug Marks Can Provide The Following Information Reliably If Analyzed Skillfully: Presence Of Different Species In The Area Of Study. Identification Of Individual Animals. Sex Ratio And Age (Young Or Adult) Of Large Cats. Wildlife Scientist Proved That The Pugmark Comparison Was Highly Unreliable, Since The Same Tiger’s Pugmarks Could Look Very Different Depending On The Terrain.Since Then, Stripe Patterns Have Been Recognized The Most Reliab...