Owners claim rearing the cats in captivity will help reduce the illegal trade in
tiger parts which are used in traditional medicine, but environmentalists say it only stimulates further smuggling.
Not exact matches
The wood
tiger moth is the first species known in
which fluids from various
parts of the moth's body each target a different type of predator.
Conservationists say they can use these relatives to help reestablish the Caspian
tiger in Central Asia,
parts of
which are no longer inhabited by people and have plenty of suitable prey.
There, habitats for orangutans, elephants and
tigers are being destroyed and land - clearing fires,
which cloak
parts of the region in haze, have become a routine hazard.
Leonardo is a yellow
tiger, who's appearance and name is heavily based on a leopard, an animal that is in the Panthera genus,
which the
tiger is also a
part of.
Catnip is ten times more effective than DEET at repelling mosquitoes Some insects also contain Nepetalactone
which may protect them from other insects Large cats such as
tigers can also enjoy a little catnip There are 250 species in the mint family Labiatae, only one causes this response in cats Cats can smell very small amounts of catnip in the air, only 1
part per billion
«This big - cat meditation center is
part of the monastery's World Buddhist Sanctuary,» Gunyup added,
which is «a nearly $ 170 million project to expand the temple's
tiger enterprise.
The result (
which cost Saatchi # 50,000) was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a
tiger shark (
which cost # 6,000) pickled in formaldehyde in a glass case,
which was exhibited in 1992 as
part of the first Young British Arts (YBA) Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery of contemporary art in London.
The second
part of Zhilyaev's «archive,»
which is presented at the e-flux gallery, consists of press images of President Vladimir Putin, in
which his antics (namely, his media appearances showing him kissing a
tiger, flying with cranes, fishing, or painting) are displayed as the work of a conceptual artist.
On a chartered boat and sometimes patrol boats, Rabinowitz winds deeper and deeper into the struggles of
tigers,
which are hemmed in ever more in India and Bangladesh by expanding populations and deforestation and imperiled by the rising Asian trade in
tiger parts.