A Bengal tiger that escaped from its cage at a sanctuary was tranquilized and captured Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The adult tiger was last seen by caretakers at McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary about 11 p.m. Tuesday, said Gabriella Ferraro, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Authorities had warned residents in the area Wednesday morning [...]
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The founders of an exotic animal facility this morning started loading up about 20 of their big cats for transfer to a facility in Oklahoma, in the wake of criticism after a tiger attacked the friend of a volunteer Aug. 3.
Ken and Sandra Smith, founders of the Wesa-A-Geh-Ya animal facility, tranquilized the lions and tigers [...]
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The Baghdad Zoo today showed off two rare Bengal tiger cubs, which were donated by the Conservators’ Center animal sanctuary in North Carolina. The tigers, named Hope and Riley, weigh about 150 pounds each and arrived in Iraq on Aug. 4, traveling from the U.S. via DHL.
The zoo is an extremely popular attraction in [...]
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Want to learn more about tigers, try to answer Kitty Mowmow’s Question Nownow, and hear some great tiger-esque music? Then listen to the podcast.
Here’s the playlist:
Track……….Song……….Artist……….Album
Tiger……….Brian Auger & The Trinity feat. Julie Driscoll……….Funk Rock
My Tiger My Heart……….The Boy Least Likely To……….The Best Party Ever
Paper Tiger……….Beck……….Sea Change
She’s Losing It……….Belle & Sebastian……….Tigermilk
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Two recent tiger attacks in Missouri could prompt stronger support for a bill tightening controls over dangerous exotic animals, the legislator who has led the effort for several years said Wednesday.
Rep. Michael Sutherland, R-Warrenton, said a bill he sponsored in the past and will sponsor again would regulate exotics as pets and provide more state [...]
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Oh, my! Three tiger cubs at a Kansas zoo are getting some maternal care from an unlikely source — Isabella the golden retriever.
The tiger cubs were born Sunday at Safari Zoological Park but their mother soon stopped caring for them. Isabella had just weaned her own puppies and was able to step in.
Zoo owner [...]
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered species in the Eastern Himalayas. The recent survey of April 2008 showed a population of between 6-14 [...]
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The potential market for tiger products in China is enormous, but a vast majority of the Chinese public would rather have wild tigers than tiger-bone wine, according to new research.
The researchers examined data collected from a representative sample of Chinese living in seven major cities in China. The results show that while the Chinese [...]
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Chinese authorities has ordered a probe into reported sale of tiger bone wine in Beijing and northern China and vowed to punish anyone trading in endangered animals or their products.
The action followed a report in Britains’ The Sunday Telegraph that undercover investigators had been offered the chance to buy wine made from [...]
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Siegfried and Roy might want to move the good furniture into storage for a while.
The famed illusionists welcomed five new tiger cubs to their exotic habitat on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, a move Siegfried Fischbacher said would be therapeutic for Roy Horn, who was critically injured when he was mauled by a 380-pound [...]
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