The researchers are currently spiking Chinese medicines with progressively smaller doses
of tiger bone to determine the limits of the test's sensitivity.
And three recent raids in India that confiscated huge caches
of tiger bones and hides suggest that the need for such policing tools is greater than ever.
A study of thousands of skeletons of extinct species by Caitlin Brown and Mairin Balisi of the University of California, Los Angeles, found injuries on 4.3 per cent
of the tiger bones and 2.8 per cent of wolf bones.
The burgeoning and increasing demand for lion bones — as substitutes for the unsustainable and popular use
of tiger bones — in Asian folk remedies.
Not exact matches
We have the Merry Cemetery
of Romania, the
tiger - shaped coffins
of Ghana, the
bone churches
of Europe.
And laws against the wildlife trade have failed to prevent supplies
of everything from rhinoceros horns to
tiger bones from reaching the estimated $ 3.9 - billion global market.
The problem is that although officials can seize medicines that list
tiger bone as an ingredient, they need proof
of its presence to get criminal convictions.
According to certain tenets
of traditional Chinese medicine,
tiger bone steeped in wine is thought to relieve human
bone ailments like arthritis and bear penis is used to treat, well, you get the idea.
When Wang and I visited a Beijing shop, I did not find any
tiger bone powder for sale (not even the «
tiger» powder containing leopard
bones that began to be sold after the Chinese government banned the sale
of the striped predator's skeletal remains).
Ancient DNA extracted from fossil
bones and museum specimens has shed new light on the mysterious loss
of the Tasmanian
tiger (thylacine) from Australia's mainland.
To calculate the genetic diversity
of the
tigers of a century ago, the scientists turned to a serendipitous gene bank: stacks
of tiger pelts and
bones in museums.
Comparative limb
bone loading in the humerus and femur
of the
tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum: Testing the «mixed - chain» hypothesis for skeletal safety factors.
Her new study published in the Journal
of Experimental Biology investigates the stresses experienced by the limb
bones of tiger salamanders during terrestrial locomotion.
Listen as Mills tells how she followed the trail
of this story and found the unintended consequences to wild
tigers that were created by allowing the breeding, raising and slaughter
of tigers for
tiger bone wine and other gourmet treats.
In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation
of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and
tiger bone, and passage
of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.