A Michael Broad Blog
Quite a lot of people respond to enquiries on why the cat was left out of the Chinese zodiac of 12 animals. After all, they’ve got the dog in the zodiac and the cat is as popular today as the dog. It seems very unfair. There is a myth as to the reason but …
There are two points to make (a) in 2017, the South China tiger has been reclassified as the same species as the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) and therefore technically we can’t discuss it as a species of wild cat anymore and (b) if the South China tiger exists as a species it is …
The South China tiger, which is considered to be extinct in the wild and of which there are about 100 in captivity, has benefited from a recent high profile divorce case – Quan v Bray – in the High Court in London. The family assets in this divorce case are valued at about £27m. Of that …
by Michael (London, UK) South China/Indonesia tiger hybred (cross breed) in captivity in Kunming Zoo – Photo by ltansey (Flickr) 21st November 2010: This news has been coming for some time. We should not be surprised. The South China Tiger is extinct and that, it seems, means totally extinct. I am not just talking …
by Michael (London, UK) South China Tiger – photo published under a Wikipedia Commons license Nov. 2009: Are south china tigers extinct? That must be the first question. Well the best people to ask must be the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (Red List) people. After all they are meant to be at …
by Elias (Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.) I firmly believe that the indochinese tiger and south chinese tiger might have the same DNA, they might be the same tiger species after all, so therefore it is possible to use the indochinese tiger as a substitute for the south china tiger and successfully rewild it in China …
