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A brisk five minute walk from Blackpool Transport's depot brings us to Bloomfield Road coach park which as well as housing coaches bringing hoards of day trippers to the popular Lancashire shit hole, is also where National Express services terminate. Yorkshire Traction 17, a Plaxton Paramount bodied Leyland Tiger takes a rest on one of the out of service bays having just arrived on a 351 service.
This tiger as it turns out was just waking up, he got much more active a 1/2 hour later.
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The Sumatran tiger is the smallest tiger in the world, a rare subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Distinguished by heavy black stripes, orange coats, slightly larger manes, and they are very good swimmers. Sadly the Sumatran Tiger is vulnerable to extinction.
Sumatran Tiger was classified as critically endangered by IUCN in 2008. The population is estimated to be less than 500 in the wild today. Tigers face unrelenting poachers, accelerated deforestation due to high logging activities taking place in their natural habitat, causing loss of their habitat and prey.
Fight to end extinction of species around the world. www.EndExtinction.org
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Only half relaxing - there were wolves within his eyesight and he would have loved to be able to get at them - I took a photo of the male lion on the same woodpile last time - now he has joined the female lion in her enclosure.
From a photo I took at the zoo, a tiger in pastels.
It's weird how pastels photograph, for me, anyway. In the real pastel painting, it looks much smoother. In the photo, all of those lines pop out.
Anyone good at photographing pastels? Any tips you can share?
Tigers and their superlative qualities have been a source of fascination for mankind since ancient times, and they are routinely visible as important cultural and media motifs. They are also considered one of the charismatic megafauna, and are used as the face of conservation campaigns worldwide. In a 2004 online poll conducted by cable television channel Animal Planet, involving more than 50,000 viewers from 73 countries, the tiger was voted the world's favourite animal with 21% of the vote, narrowly beating the dog.
Sumatran tigers are the smallest surviving tiger subspecies and are distinguished by heavy black stripes on their orange coats. They are protected by law in Indonesia, with tough provisions for jail time and steep fines. But despite increased efforts in tiger conservation—including law enforcement and antipoaching capacity—a substantial market remains in Sumatra and the rest of Asia for tiger parts and products. Sumatran tigers are losing their habitat and prey fast, and poaching shows no sign of decline.