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A little sumatran tiger from the zoo "Wilhelma" (Stuttgart, Germany). The name of the kitty is Satu or Dua. (Don't know how to differ those two)
Both tigers are adult now. One is in Romania and the other one is in Australia.
Does anyone where exactly they are?
Do you have new photos of the adult tigers?
Ein kleiner Sumatratiger aus dem Zoo Wilhelma in Stuttgart. Das Kätzchen heißt Satu oder Dua. (Konnte die beiden leider nie auseinanderhalten)
Beide Tiger sind jetzt erwachsen, einer ist in Rumänien, der andere wurde nach Australien gebracht.
Weiß jemand, wo genau die Tiger jetzt sind?
Gibt es neue Fotos von den erwachsenen Tigern?
(Aufnahmeort: Wilhelma Stuttgart)
Noch mehr Tierfotos und Tiger hier.
More animalphotos and Tigers here.
Oxford Diecast's newly released all-Leyland Royal Tiger coach has caused a stir, being much less than half the price of most model buses but every bit as good as a £35 EFE; the RRP is £12.95 but you can find it for less than £10 at some retailers. This is the initial Southdown version and as I don't collect Southdown it is destined to work a heritage coach tour for my Stratford-based Arden-Lancer fleet.
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the Felidae family and the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. Reaching up to 3.3 metres (11 ft) in total length, weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds), and having canines up to 4 inches long, the larger tiger subspecies are comparable in size to the biggest extinct felids. Aside from their great bulk and power, their most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes that overlays near-white to reddish-orange fur, with lighter underparts. The most numerous tiger subspecies is the Bengal tiger while the largest subspecies is the Siberian tiger.
Tigers have a lifespan of 10–15 years in the wild, but can live longer than 20 years in captivity. They are highly adaptable and range from the Siberian taiga, to open grasslands, to tropical mangrove swamps. They are territorial and generally solitary animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey demands. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans. Of the nine subspecies of modern tiger, three are extinct and the remaining six are classified as endangered, some critically so. The primary direct causes are habitat destruction and fragmentation, and hunting. Their historical range once stretched from Mesopotamia and the Caucasus through most of South and East Asia. Today it has been radically reduced. While all surviving species are under formal protection, poaching, habitat destruction and inbreeding depression continue to threaten the species.
Tigers are among the most recognisable and popular of the world's charismatic megafauna. They have featured prominently in ancient mythology and folklore, and continue to be depicted in modern films and literature. Tigers appear on many flags and coats of arms, as mascots for sporting teams, and as the national animal of several Asian nations, including India.
Maharajah Jungle Trek
Walt Disney World-Animal Kingdom-Orlando Fl.
Malayan Tiger, Zoo Miami
D810: another example of fast AF, maintaining focus on fast moving subject, no buffer overloads and still sharp. So far I am impressed.
Point Defiance Zoo, Tacoma Wa
This shot was taken in 2005, but it is the same tiger that appears on the cover of the September 2007 Popular Photography
And this is about the time I got the idea for the 18 Tigers Project:
Angel and Stone by Howard Nemerov
In the world are millions and millions of men, and each man,
With a few exceptions, believes himself to be at the center,
A small number of his more or less necessary planets careening
Around him in an orderly manner, some morning stars singing together,
More distant galaxies shining like dust in any stray sunbeam
Of his attention. Since this is true not of one man or of two,
But of ever so many, it is hard to imagine what life must be like.
But if you drop a stone into a pool, and observe the ripples
Moving in circles successively out to the edge of the pool and then
Reflecting back and passing through the ones which continue to come
Out of the center over the sunken stone, you observe it is pleasing.
And if you drop two stones it will still be pleasing, because now
The angular intersections of the two sets form a more complicated
Pattern, a kind of reticulation regular and of simple origins.
But if you throw a handful of sand into the water, it is confusion,
Not because the same laws have ceased to obtain, but only because
The limits of your vision in time and number forbid you to discrminate
Such fine, quick, myriad events as the angels and archangels, thrones
And dominations, principalities and powers, are delegated to witness
And declare the glory of before the lord of everything that is.
Of these great beings and mirrors of being, little at present is known,
And of the manner of their perceiving not much more. We imagine them
As benign, as pensively smiling and somewhat coldly smiling, but
They may not be as we imagine them. Among them there are some who count
The grassblades and the grains of sand by one and one and one
And number the raindrops and memorize the eccentricities of snowflakes.
One of the greater ones reckons and records the times of time,
Distinguishing the dynasties of Mountains, races, cities,
As they rise, flower and fall, to whom an age is as a wave,
A nation the spray thrown from its crest; and one, being charged
With all the crossing moments, the coming-together and drivings-apart,
Reads in the chromatin its cryptic scripture as the cell divides;
And one is the watcher over chance events and the guardian of disorder
According to the law of the square root of n, so that a certain number
Of angels or molecules shall fall in irrelevance and be retrograde.
So do they go, those shining creatures, counting without confusion
And holding in their slow immeasurable gaze all the transactions
Of all the particles, item by atom, while the pyramids stand still
In the desert and the deermouse huddles in his hole and the rain falls
Piercing the skin of the pool with water in water and making a million
And a million designs to be pleasingly latticed and laced and interfused
And mirrored to the Lord of everything that is by one and one.