April 21, 2021
The question is specific and precise. It asks whether male tigers kill their offspring. The word that describes this is ‘filicide’. It describes the behaviour of animals and humans when they kill their offspring....
March 16, 2021
COMMENT ON NEWS: I recently wrote about the tiger abusing countries of Asia. Laos (horror story), Vietnam, Thailand and China appear to be the big four countries where tigers are abused the most but...
November 24, 2020
Tigers’s have stripes for camouflage to allow them to approach prey animals as closely as possible to improve kill rates. Although, it’s quite a subtle question because although we know that tiger stripes act...
August 4, 2020
Yes, sometimes tigers do fight each other at times of flux and tension. The most sought-after resource for male tigers in the wild are females rather than food. Males compete for access to females....
July 10, 2018
How many stripes do tigers have? Around 100 I’d say as it is possible to do the obvious: count them from a photograph. Of course it is not a very precise process as a...
September 27, 2017
You’ll probably know by now that tigers pace in captivity as a coping mechanism. Worried humans pace too. It is a sign of stress. Tigers don’t do it in the wild. It is not...
September 12, 2017
Do tigers like catnip? The answer depends upon the individual tiger. Some domestic cats don’t respond to catnip and most tigers do not respond to catnip. Big Cat Rescue (BCR) state that tigers respond...
August 9, 2017
There are two “bites” during tiger mating. I will quote verbatim the account by the former director of the Delhi Zoo, Kailash Sankhala, of a mating encounter between tigers. It explains and refers to...
April 13, 2017
“Cub Petting” is about making a lot of money from customers who want to pay for the pleasure of cuddling and petting a lion or tiger cub. The operators of these businesses are inherently...
March 5, 2017
At the time David Gill managed the South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, England. In 2010 a female Sumatran tiger cub, Kadi, was one of the zoo’s star attractions. Her birth in that year...
June 1, 2016
Tiger Temple HORROR: Rotting corpses of 40 cubs found in freezer in Thai tourist hotpot You may have heard of the Tiger Temple in Thailand (in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok), run by Buddhist...
May 29, 2014
In the competitive and crowded world of online dating it can be tough to prove yourself as an alpha male especially on Tinder, the mobile app, where potential mates can dismiss your carefully compiled...
Just one hundred years ago the tiger population was more than 30 times greater than today. There were at least 100,000 of these magnificent big cats living on our planet. But due to illegal...
Animal laws / Animal Rights / Tiger
October 29, 2012
Does the world have enough tigers left to feed the unending and insatiable appetite of the Chinese people to consume it – yes, eat it – for medicinal purposes? I doubt it. All the...
May 25, 2012
by Holly Ann (Syracuse Utah) Tiger Day in Russia Hello tiger enthusiast, you may think that there is nothing you could possibly do to help the tiger, but there are actually quite a bit...
