Endangered Tigers Today wild tigers exist in Eastern Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan, India and Nepal. In order to live in the wild, tigers need water to drink, animals to hunt, and vegetation in which to hide. As the mountains, jungles, forests, and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear, so too, do tigers. Agricultural expansion, timber cutting, new roads, human settlement, industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push
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Seminar Life of Pi Introduction We are all the hero of our own lives, and we are given the opportunity to make choices and decisions that ultimately affect our own personal stories. Carol Pearson, in the Hero Within says the “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Although they may feel very alone during the quest, at its end their reward is a sense of community: with themselves, with other people, and with the earth.” The Life of Pi is a wonderful
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The history of Wildlife Conservation Society research in India began in the 1960's - with the first-ever scientific study of wild tigers in central India by George Schaller. Henceforth, following a break of two decades, Ullas Karanth accelerated the present WCS-India program as a single tiger research project at Nagarhole in the year 1986. Ever since, WCS-India has developed into a comprehensive collection of activities that revolve around major global conservation strategies of WCS - scientific
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“Are you ready for you’re shots Tiger?” They say every time before they knock me out cold for the next procedure. “Genetic Changes” is what they call it. See I’m a Poisonous tiger stuck in a lab with other animals. I’m laying on this cold table in this blank room waiting for them to put me out of my Missouri again! Whispers start to feel the room and I overhear Dr.B speaking to a tall shadowed man covered in different shades of green and a top hat to match. They kept pointing and whispering Dr.B
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The Bengal Tiger Introduction Perhaps there is no more famous of a Bengal tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris) than Rudyard Kipling’s Shere Khan. Known as the dominant and feared antagonist in The Jungle Book that was to be not only feared, but respected throughout the entire jungle. Although it’s habitat is in India, the Bengal tiger has commanded so much respect that even an American professional football team’s logo uses the Bengal as their official mascot (Cincinnati Bengals). The problem is that
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History In 1942, the Badlands National Monument was used as a gunnery and firing range for World War II soldiers. The first people to cross the Badlands were mammoth hunters around 10,000 years ago. Ancient animals such as the rhino and saber-toothed tigers used to live in the canyons. The Lakota Indians knew the Badlands as “mako sica” which means “bad lands” and the English knew them as ‘les mauvaises terres a traverser’ which means “bad
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Do you know how tigers are like sergeants in the army? It is simple they both wear stripes, or do they. Tigers can have a mutation that causes albinism, and the stripes stay the same black shade or almost all the stripes disappear. This happens when two Bengal tigers who mate, both have a recessive gene that controls the color of their coat. I find it fascinating, how they look, the genetics that cause it, and some of the genetic defects that occur while inbreeding. White tigers have snow white
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Tigers can live in almost any climate Tigers that kill and eat people are most often sick or wounded animals.A normal colored tigress can give birth to a lit which some of the cubs Some tigers have chalk white fur with chocolate brown or black stripe these tigers called white tigers are also distinctive because they have blue eyes all of the Tigers have yellow eyes white tigers are rare in the wild more than a hundred white tigers live in the world zoos they are all descendants of a white cub cart
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Save National beauties Tiger A century ago there were 100,000 tigers roaming the forests, swamps, and tundra of Asia. TODAY, there are as few as 3,200 left in the wild. Only 7% of historic tiger habitat still contains tigers. At this rate, wild tigers will be extinct in just a few decades. - See more at: http://www.savetigersnow.org/probleConsumer demand for tiger parts poses the largest threat to tiger survival. Tigers are being hunted to extinction by poachers for their skins, bones, teeth
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Bronx Zoo: Jungle World Exhibit General Description: The Jungle world Exhibit at the Bronx Zoo was very interesting. If it wasn’t for this class I probably wouldn’t have ever went there, I am glad that I went because I saw a lot of interesting displays and learned a lot about animals that I have never really known about. My favorite display is the Rainforest display. The display was so real feeling. I saw animals such as ebony and silvered langurs, as well as tree
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