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This photo depicts a young male Indochinese tiger cub (Panthera tigris corbetti) at a place called "Tiger Kingdom" in Chiang Mai, Thailand (a seedy place I was asked to conduct an investigation on...I don't particularly recommend it).
This little guy was quite a sweetheart and he was quite enthusiastic responding to my chuffs. At one point we faced each other, chuffing back and forth over and over while our faces got closer together until the cub licked my nose. The other guests got a kick out of it, for sure.
...but, there is a different side to every cub. For all the cute playfulness, there lurks deep within their minds an instinct, a drive to be a tiger. A tiger can never be truly tamed and it always has the capacity to unleash the wild it has within. You can see this at a young age when they stalk and ambush your ankles.
Occasionally, you'll catch a flash of unbridled tigerness across their cute little faces as they lick their lips...and you can't help but wonder if it's a sign of things to come.
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
This little guy was quite a sweetheart and he was quite enthusiastic responding to my chuffs. At one point we faced each other, chuffing back and forth over and over while our faces got closer together until the cub licked my nose. The other guests got a kick out of it, for sure.
...but, there is a different side to every cub. For all the cute playfulness, there lurks deep within their minds an instinct, a drive to be a tiger. A tiger can never be truly tamed and it always has the capacity to unleash the wild it has within. You can see this at a young age when they stalk and ambush your ankles.
Occasionally, you'll catch a flash of unbridled tigerness across their cute little faces as they lick their lips...and you can't help but wonder if it's a sign of things to come.
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Tiger
Size 800 x 600px
File Size 287 kB
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