A Michael Broad Blog
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 …
I’m referring to tigers in the wild eating their recently deceased prey animals. Clearly this is different to captive tigers being fed by a zookeeper. For large prey animals tigers employ a suffocating throat bite which is positioned just below the junction of the jaw and neck. It crushes the animal’s trachea. Tigers hold …
The Roy being referred to in the title is one half of the duo Siegfried & Roy who were massively successful in Las Vegas for a long time presenting mystifying magic with exotic white lions and tigers. Their act was ended after a 2003 tiger attack at the Mirage when a seven-year-old white tiger …
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO. This was a New Year family outing to a zoo that went horribly wrong and the reason was a bizarre decision by the head of the family, Mr Zhang, to try and avoid the zoo’s entrance fee by climbing over two ten-foot-high walls which landed him in the tiger enclose where …
This map shows where you can see cats in public zoos across the USA. All you have to do is click on the place markers to see details about the wild cat species at these zoos together with some details about the zoo. The yellow place markers pinpoint the best zoos for seeing wild …
The Russian government wants to get along with the Chinese government. They have similar philosophies; dictatorship disguised as a quasi-democracy. Russia also wants to get along with China for economic reasons because Europe is putting the squeeze on them financially with sanctions as a result of Russia invading the Ukraine. Russia recently completed a …
Sumatran Tiger – Photo by Tom Held Tiger attacks are taking place increasingly frequently in Sumatra and other Asian countries. The Sumatran tiger, like all tigers are heading towards extinction (how many times have I said that?) because of the inevitable habitat loss. The Sumatran tiger’s habitat is the forests of the Indonesian island …
