I’m a newbie interested in buying a Digital SLR camera but first want to learn the basics about the technology itself, as well as get educated on the types of cameras…any recommendations on where to get started?
does anyone know a website, where I can find charts and graphs about the bengal tiger population rate, birth date, etc because I want to analyse the data.
Here are some interesting facts about tigers:
1. Tigers are the largest naturally occurring specie of cats.
2. Of tiger subspecies, the Siberian Tiger is the biggest cat that can weigh well up to eight hundred pounds.
3. Tigers are very beautiful and their striped coat makes for ideal camouflage.
4. A tiger’s stripes are like fingerprints – no two are alike. In fact the stripes’ pattern is often used to identify individual tigers in the wild.
5. In India paw prints or pug marks are often used by local wildlife officials to identify individual tigers. However, this technique is now deemed to be flawed since an individual tiger may leave several different types of paw prints depending on its speed and terrain.
6. Tigers are largely solitary cats and are most active between dusk and dawn.
7. Tigers are largely muscular and rely on stealth and power to bring down a prey rather than speed. Like other big cats most tiger ambushes are unsuccessful.
8. Tigers are perhaps the most notorious big cat for man-eating. In fact the single greatest man-eater is history is believed to be the Champawat Tigress who killed over four hundred thirty people in India decades ago until she was finally killed by the great Jim Corbett.
9. Tigers are highly ferocious and unlike the laid back male lion, it’s never wise to turn your back to a tiger even in captivity. Even seasoned zoo keepers report tigers assume a stalking position and prepare to strike when they turn their back to them in the cage.
10. Tigers have suffered greatly at the hand of humans for their beauty and majestic appeal – they have been hunted nearly to extinction in most of their former territories – the largest pool is now in India where recent reports suggest there may be as few as fifteen hundred of the Bengal tigers remaining.
11. An adult male tiger in the wild requires around one hundred and fifty kilograms of meat a month.
12. If Chinese traditional medicine makers were to stop using animal parts – tigers, rhinos and many other endangered animals would benefit greatly.
13. One of the best places for watching tigers in the wild is the Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh in central India.
The author is a blogger about cats and an expert on tiger facts
I need some info about the following things on white tigers:
-their ecosystem
-where they live
-their niche in the ecosystem
-food chain they would be part of
-food web they would be part of
-where they would be in an ecological pyramid
-interesting facts
-graphs,maps,pictures or tables that explain the tiger’s life
-human factors affecting that ecosystem
I know this is a lot but if you have any info that would really be appreciated.
I have recently become a wildlife major at Humboldt State University, and I am taking the first required class of that major: Introduction to Wildlife Conservation & Administration.
So far, the class has been little more than a jumbled series of dates and their corresponding policies. This stuff, while perhaps important, is disappointingly uninspiring as a first experience of this subject to which I intend to dedicate much of my life.
I am hoping that people can recommend to me books that I could supplement my education with that will provide me with further appreciation and insight into the subject. I am particularly interested in learning the background of human’s relationship with wildlife, dating further back into history (way back in history), and then seeing how that has evolved into the sort of structures we have now.
Really, I am interested in any book that addresses the topic of humans and their relationship with wildlife that is informative and interesting.Thanks!