Sentences with phrase «tiger pelts»
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.
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Budi Tek began collecting contemporary art in 2004 and now owns more than 1,500 artworks, including large - scale pieces by Xu Bing (a tiger pelt made from 600,000 cigarettes) and Sun Yuan and Peng Yu (a high - pressure fire hose that sprays water).
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David Day, a Canadian author of a book on extinct species, recalls that what affected him most profoundly while doing his research was viewing the actual relics: the aurochs's horn, the pelt of the Bali tiger, the weathered rib cage of a Steller's sea cow.
The big cats were represented, with pelts from tigers, leopards, ocelots, and jaguars popping up on eBay and on other sites.
Many cat species are hunted by poachers, who get high prices on the black market for tiger parts and snow leopard pelts.