Sentences with phrase «wild tigers in»

They [China] have wild tigers in the north and wild tigers in Yunnan (Province).

«They have wild tigers in the north and wild tigers in Yunnan (Province).

More recently, several cases have been reported in wild tigers in India [8].

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This large - scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5 - 10 years, and Sumatran tigers less than 3 years.»

The government is moving to ban to use of wild animals like tigers, monkeys and zebras in circus shows.

Humans kill large carnivores — a category of animals that includes wolves, bears, lions, tigers and pumas — at more than nine times their mortality rate in the wild.

NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.

Wild Amur tigers in Russia are falling victim to a viral infection transmitted by stray dogs.

The result is that South Africa, where rhino are meant to be protected, lost 230 animals to poaching in seven months last year, and there are now fewer than 3500 wild tigers left worldwide.

Said Nadezhda Sulikhan, a scientific staff member of Land of the Leopard National Park and Ph.D. candidate at the Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (part of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences): «The leopard virus was genetically similar to infections we've diagnosed in wild Amur tigers.

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.

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

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.

Zoos are the only places where white tigers exist: Treasured for their enigmatic coats, they've been hunted to extinction in the wild.

The number of wild tigers has plummeted from over 100,000 in the 19th century to perhaps 7000 now, according to United Nations (UN) officials.

But because the gene appears to affect only the cat's color, white tigers are simply genetically healthy variants of Bengal tigers, which, if bred carefully, might still survive well in the wild.

That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1

There are only — at most — 4,600 tigers left in all of the wild, according to a 2007 estimate.

Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with only a few hundred left in zoos and in the wild.

Surveys indicate that Russia's wild tiger population has increased from 40 in the 1940s to 540 today.

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

Here, scientists brought in a series of wild axolotls to mix up the gene pool and at one point even added in tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum).

Sumatran tigers face many challenges to their continued existence in the wild, where they require a home range of 25,000 hectares.

They studied mating between the Asian tiger and yellow fever mosquitoes and found that it in the wild, avoidance mechanisms evolved in yellow fever mosquitoes, Bargielowski said.

Mirsky: Yeah, you make the point in the article that in some ways we might not even need to know what the exact population of the world's wild tigers are.

But the situation I was working in in the early»90s was a prey - rich area with lots of wild elephants, a lot of tigers, and they would not enter traps.

«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.

And yet, based on your article, for a long time we haven't even been able to accurately tell how many there were in the world — wild tigers, obviously, not those in captivity.

Within that country's borders, in a park or residual wild area, are the last giant pandas or snow leopards, the last pockets of mountain gorillas or tigers, or the last migratory herd of a million wildebeests — something magnificent and acclaimed and sanctified.

«Sadly, the decline appears to be due to the dwindling number of tigers left in the wild.»

With fewer than 500 individuals left in the wild, the Sumatran tiger is classed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union.

Its natural beauty, peaceful atmosphere and yoga on the banks of the Ganges go hand in hand with a host of adventure activities like white water rafting, camping, trekking, rock climbing, bungee jumping and jungle safari in Rajaji National Park to sight tigers and other wild animals.

It was nature's intention that we MOVE in order to survive — to catch and hunt down that wild boar, to forage, to escape saber tooth tigers, to climb trees, to fight the guy who wants to take your food and bag your pretty woman.

With an abandoned baby crying in their hotel suite's closet a roaming tiger in their bathroom and a completely AWOL groom their lives suddenly become very complicated as they try to put the pieces of their «Boys Gone Wild» night together and find their friend before the wedding bells start to ring.

November 22, 2011 • Fewer than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild.

Rowan (ゴメス, Gomesu, Gomez) is a tiger villager in the Animal Crossing series, having a personality change in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Mr. Rupani's sixth book after the critically acclaimed Driving Holidays in India and More Driving Holidays in India and India's 100 Best Destinations; the book tracks the wild feline through India's best tiger reserves and was compiled with the support of Land Rover's primary global conservation partner, the Born Free Foundation.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard - favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful oceaIn peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard - favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful oceain our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard - favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Kennelly's twangy voice tumbles and breaks, tremulous with years yet becoming electric with wonder as she confides this fantastic tale from her childhood in the wilds of nineteenth - century Tasmania, when she was lost and rescued by tigers.

Tragedy strikes, the boat sinks, and Pi is left alone in the Pacific with a boat full of wild animals — including a tiger.

Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region

In other words, smart independent retailers can acknowledge kitty's need to walk on the wild side, while still providing the tools to tame the tiger.

These laws seek to regulate or, in some cases, prohibit the ownership of everything from constrictors and ferrets to monk parakeets and tetras in addition to the «lions and tigers and bears» we might reasonably associate with adjectives like dangerous and wild.

Many breeders donate to tiger conservation, so this miniature tiger helps to save big tigers in the wild.

The calming blink works on house cats, feral cats, and even tigers in the wild, according to behaviorist Roger Tabor.

In the wild, dominant cats including those of the Panthera genus, such as lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars that are competing for territory often do not bury their excrement as a way of signaling that they want to claim a particular area.

Feline parvovirus is not only found in domestic cats, wild cats like the leopard, lion, cheetah and tigers are also subject to this deadly disease.

This bill called the Big Cat Public Safety Act is the most important piece of legislation to ever be introduced to protect lions, tigers, and other exotic wild cats from being kept as pets and in miserable roadside zoos.