Man-eating tigers in India 2020

There are man-eating tigers in India in 20201. This doesn’t surprise me seeing as the population of India has climbed from 238 million in 1900 to 1.4 billion in 2020 despite a massive decline in the tiger population in that country over the same period. In 1900 it is believed that there were 100,000 …

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Why do tigers attack humans?

Tiger walking down country track after a group of women in India's Ranthambhore national park

There are two main reasons why tigers attack humans, (1) they are probably injured or infirm and have to rely on easy prey and (2) humans and tigers are being forced together because of increased human population and therefore there is human-tiger conflict. It could be argued that there is no place for the …

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Shraddha Kapoor is an animal lover

Shraddha Kapoor

I am an instant fan of Shraddha Kapoor. I had no idea who she was until about five minutes ago when I discovered some nice things about her. She posted to her Instagram account a very short video of a feral cat being rescued near her home. She has 51.9 million followers on her …

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Indian police got it wrong when they stopped cat owner popping out to buy cat food in coronavirus lockdown

3 domestic cats

Buying pet food is considered essential in any country during the coronavirus crisis and rightly so because governments can’t starve millions of cats and dogs to death. It is a surprise therefore to read that N Prakash living in Kochi, Kerala, India was told by police that he could not leave his home to …

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She can’t hear or speak. She cleans the streets of Chennai, India. She feeds and talks to the stray cats and dogs.

Rita

This is the kind of woman for whom I have so much admiration. Her name is Rita akka (elder sister). She is inspirational despite being unable to hear or speak and despite having the hardest and the lowliest of jobs. And despite being alone because her husband has died and her daughter, 17, has …

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What is a punch face cat?

Punch face Persian cat

‘Punch face’ is an unfortunate term to describe the modern Persian cat. The term is based on violence which makes it innapropriate. This is a punch face cat: Below is an alternative image. The Persian cat in the image below is more a flat-faced Persian while the one above has some doll face characteristics: …

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Cat in India faces deportation to China on Covid-19 fears

Coronavirus

NEWS/OPINION-Kaleeji Times: a controversy between People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in India and the Chennai quarantine facility at Chennai Port has broken out because of a cat which arrived in a container on a ship from China. The Chennai authorities believe that the cat may have contracted the Covid-19 virus and therefore …

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Picture of the death of a leopard – the human/leopard conflict

The death of a leopard due to the human-leopard conflict

The photograph shows a group of men surrounding a dead leopard. The news headline is ‘Human-leopard conflicts increase’. Macho men like to demonstrate their courage and skill in killing leopards who wander into urban environments. This is where a lot of the direct human-leopard conflict takes place. You see many disturbing pictures of leopards …

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