Sentences with phrase «among wild tigers»
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The study, by nine U.S. and Indian scientists, goes public with long - running concerns among conservationists about India's use of pugmarks — tiger footprints — to count the big cats in the wild.
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McAloose and her colleagues are now working on collecting samples from dogs and small wild carnivores in the Russian Far East to get a more complete picture of the various strains of CDV in circulation in the hopes of linking tiger infections to a source, knowledge that would hopefully aid in preventing more infections among tigers.
With only 3,000 left in the wild, tigers are among the most endangered animals on the planet.
Lowest Genetic Diversity of Any Tiger Population By sampling DNA from the cat's droppings, the team determined that the genetic diversity among Amur Tigers is the lowest ever recorded for a wild population of tigers.