Sentences with phrase «of tiger bones»

The burgeoning and increasing demand for lion bones — as substitutes for the unsustainable and popular use of tiger bones — in Asian folk remedies.

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.

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.

The researchers are currently spiking Chinese medicines with progressively smaller doses of tiger bone to determine the limits of the test's sensitivity.

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.