In the zoo, we will see several tigers wandering in the Tiger Mountain. But in nature, tigers live alone. "There is no room for two tigers in one mountain" is a literary description of tigers living alone in nature.
Tigers are solitary animals and only come into contact with the opposite sex during mating. Each tiger has its own territory, also called habitat. This habitat has a certain extent. Tigers often apply liquids with special odors to trees along the boundary of their habitat to remind or warn other tigers that this is my territory. Any opponent who crosses the line will be hit. These liquids are secreted by special glands on the tiger's body.
Tigers are ferocious beasts. In nature, where it inhabits, few other animals can compete with it. The tiger has a keen sense of smell and hearing, and can identify clues of its prey; its feet have soft and thick meat pads that can approach its prey silently; it also has powerful claws that make it difficult for the prey in its hands to escape. Tigers living alone have a large territory, which means they have all the food in the territory.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, which has its typical ecological significance. Because a tiger's territory must be large enough to accommodate enough prey and the food it needs, including small carnivores, herbivores and various plants. Of course, it is not very strict that only one tiger can exist on a mountain, because one mountain peak and another mountain peak are connected. Some mountains extend for a long distance, and there may be more than one tiger.
From the perspective of the food chain, tigers as predators are at the top of the food chain, forming an energy pyramid. This pyramid generally has 4 to 5 levels. Through the predatory relationship, energy is transformed and gathered from the bottom up. A large number of scientific experimental data show that 80% to 90% of the biomass in each layer of organisms is lost as heat to maintain its own growth and reproduction, and only 10% of the biomass is used as food for the upper layer of organisms. Therefore, the biomass of each layer is about 10 times that of the previous layer before it can maintain the survival of organisms in the previous layer. In this way, to survive, a tiger must have second-class predators or herbivores 10 times its own weight, first-class predators or herbivores 100 times its own weight, herbivores 1000 times its own weight, or herbivores, and plants 10000 times its own weight. Such a huge biomass can only be provided by the entire mountain! Therefore, if you occupy a mountain, you can have enough food. This is the reason why two tigers cannot be accommodated in one mountain. However, due to the over-development of the mountains and forests, the original primeval forest land that was rich in species has been replaced by most single economic forests. A large number of small and medium-sized animals have left due to the loss of their habitat. As a result, the tigers are very short of food, making it difficult for each mountain to accommodate even a tiger. If this situation cannot be improved quickly, it will be an inevitable trend that tigers at the top of the ecological food chain will be extinct.