Where Tigers Prowl

[Jakov Minić]

Ann, what an amazing series of these beautiful creatures!
Thank you.

[David H. Hartman]

Why stop at elephants? Surely Scotland should have Woolly Mammoths?

Don't imagine that this is entirely far-fetched because apparently there are plans afoot to see if they can extract DNA from frozen Mammoths; use AIS technolgy; and plant the ova in some poor unsuspecting African Elephant.

This is one more example of humans being the most dangerous great ape to walk the earth. The planet won't need anything like a wholly mammoth or a mastodon until the next ice age. We will need saber toothed tigers also. Could these tigers have dental work and manage?

Dave Hartman

 

[pluton]

This is one more example of humans being the most dangerous great ape to walk the earth. The planet won't need anything like a wholly mammoth or a mastodon until the next ice age. We will need saber toothed tigers also. Could these tigers have dental work and manage?

Dave Hartman

 

Fascinating story and pictures, Ann.  Best of luck to the tiger enterprise!
It is very disheartening that these magnificent predators are going extinct because humans can't stop---or slow down---having offspring(habitat destruction), and because certain cultures behave as though they actually believe in magic potions and spells. 

[Frank Fremerey]

Why stop at elephants? Surely Scotland should have Woolly Mammoths?

Don't imagine that this is entirely far-fetched because apparently there are plans afoot to see if they can extract DNA from frozen Mammoths; use AIS technolgy; and plant the ova in some poor unsuspecting African Elephant.

I do not buy the extinct species narrative. It sounds like Jurassic Park to me.

But as it is meant, a conservation measure, restoring landscapes that depend on large Herbivores and Carnivores to attend to them on one side, as a save-the-species-measure for Elephants, because they are more safe in Europe as the second aspect and as a photo and tourist attraction to help the target landscapes and their inhabitants, it seems just right to me. Sheep are an invasive species in Scotland, we just do not notice today because they started to wreck havoc there 11.000 years ago.

Further reading:. http://rewilding.org/rewildit/what-is-rewilding/

[Netr]

> "use AIS technology"  Wow! I didn't realise Nikon lens technology had such versatile uses ;-)

So the Big 5 will now have to become the Big 6. Great story and shots. Thanks.

[David H. Hartman]

Sheep are an invasive species in Scotland, we just do not notice today because they started to wreck havoc there 11.000 years ago.

What are homo sapiens if not invasive? Are they wise?

Dave

[Frank Fremerey]

What are homo sapiens if not invasive? Are they wise?

Dave

Yes. Funny & True. We should be wise. We know a lot but we often do not act accordingly

[Tom Hook]

“What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

Apparently an answer to Blake’s question: Ann!

Such wonderful creatures beautifully photographed.

[Ann]

> "use AIS technology"  Wow! I didn't realise Nikon lens technology had such versatile uses ;-)

So the Big 5 will now have to become the Big 6. Great story and shots. Thanks.

"AIS"? I meant "AI" of course! Perhaps I have been living too closely with Nikons than with humans recently?!
 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Great series. Thank you for sharing it with us!

[Ann]

Jack and Tom:

I am so pleased that you enjoyed the Tigers.

Blake was very much in my mind while I was processing and posting those photographs (and I very nearly titled the thread "Burning Bright" or alternatively "Fearful Symmetry"!) except I wasn't in a forest at night and I wasn't sure how meaningful those would have been to other members.

[Ann]

The white Tigress, Tiger Bomb, was born on the Tiger Canyon Reserve.

She was resting in the long white grasses under the dark twigs of a thorn bush and blended so perfectly with her surroundings that she was all but invisible until I was within about ten feet from her.

She is not an albino but carries the rare recessive gene which prevents the formation of the ginger pigment which colours most Bengal Tigers.

A few week after my visit to Tiger Canyon, they sent me an e-mail which told me that the Tibo (short for Tiger Bomb apparently!), had just given birth to three cubs (the litter was of four but one was still-born).

The father, Sariska, is also the same Tiger who fathered Ussuri’s three cubs so he appears to have been having a rare old time.

[Frank Fremerey]

Phantastic expression and integration in backdrop in #26

[David H. Hartman]

Is there a miniature version say 4kg x 24cm tall? Such might be useful for controlling rats and voles without endangering humans. They are pretty cool looking but I imagine they stink.

Dave

[Akira]

Ann, your images convey the beauty of this otherwise ferocious animal without putting us in danger.  Thank you for sharing!