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Why Is the Tiger Endangered?

This is 1,000,000 miles from a conventional answer.  You can see some conventional answers to the question in the title on this page . The reason why the tiger is endangered is because when you find out what people are searching for on the Internet with respect to the tiger they don't search for information about the tiger but prefer information about tiger emojis, Tiger Woods the golfer, Tiger Woods foundation or that kind of thing.  If you pick out the top 100 words and phrases that people search for with respect to the tiger 90% of them or more have nothing whatsoever to do with tiger itself.  Is all to do with products and sport and as mentioned emoticons etc.. This clearly indicates to me that people are not actually interested in preserving the tiger for future generations.  There are far too wrapped up in their own worlds, in the moment.  They're much more concerned about getting hold of a Japanese emoji for their webpage for their e-mail.  Peopl...

Tiger Shrimp Emoji

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This is the tiger shrimp emoji... Or tiger prawn! Same thing. The word "emoji" is a combination of picture + character. e + moji. Another word for emoji is emoticons. There is some sort of weird competition with emojis.  "Emoji pop answers". No idea what it is about. What are the questions :)

Tiger and Golf Hole Emoji

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An emoji is a smiley used in Japanese electronic messages and on webpages. A lot of people search for this ;) You can download it by right clicking on the image and following the instructions thereafter.

Tiger fishing boat snatches man

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Sorry about the video which is not very good but I suppose a true video wasn't available. The area where this happened is a known reserve for the Bengal tiger. The Bengal tiger is basically starving to death on occasions in India and Bangladesh because the tiger's prey is being taken from the tiger by people and so is the tiger's land. The tiger will only attack a human when fairly desperate. Desperation sets in when either there isn't enough prey or the tiger is unable to bring down conventional prey because he or she is injured.

Man-eating Tigers Should Be Captured Not Shot

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Surely capturing a tiger that has killed a person or persons is the more humane and reasonable way to deal with this sort of problem. If the tiger kills a person it is probable that the tiger is old or sick or for whatever reason is unable to kill its usual prey. The tiger does not naturally hunt people. So, for example, perhaps a tiger was injured by a person and perhaps people have encroached on a tiger's habitat squeezing the tiger out. There may have been a case of mismanagement of the tiger. This looks ridiculous to me. Tiger forced to be in close proximity to people working in Ranthambhore National Park. For example, a tiger may have been relocated from one reserve to another and he or she finds it difficult to create his own home range. He is forced out onto the borders of a reserve where he encounters people. There are numerous possible scenarios for a tiger to encounter a person under which the tiger is not at fault . As the tiger is not at fault why should he be ...

Tiger's Bite Is Much Stronger Than A Lion's Bite

A tiger can bite with a force of up to 1000 pounds per square inch. This is about 10 times more powerful than the bite of a human. The lion's bite is 600 pounds per square inch.  This video explains:- This information is important in only one respect really and that is the argument about who wins  in a lion versus tiger fight. The bite strength is only one factor, of course. There are many other factors such as the individual weight and size of the lion or tiger. Also, individual cats will vary in their personalities and aggression levels. Incidentally, tigers are generally larger and heavier than lions. The Siberian is the largest cat (excepting man-made hybrids such as the Liger) I have a page on the lion versus tiger debate which also contains links to many other contributions from visitors. In a long-running poll visitors voted marginally in favour of the lion. However, the argument is academic because these two top predators do not meet in the wild. They may meet i...

Lion Wins Genuine Lion Versus Tiger Fight At Zoo

A lion won this fight but there is an endless discussion on the internet about who is the better fighter and who wins the lion versus tiger fight . It is very rare for a lion to fight a tiger and if they do it will probably occur in a zoo as happened in this case and very often the fight that you see is not a genuine fight but more just a skirmish with one cat batting the other. However, in this instance a lion killed a tiger at a zoo in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea.  A 5-year-old lion fell into a trench that was below his yard. He was trying to catch a chicken that the zookeeper had thrown to him. Next to the lion's pen was apparently a tiger cage and a 6-year-olf female tiger was able to jump into the trench. This seems to be an example of mismanagement by the zookeepers to me in allowing this to happen. In any event, although the lion and tiger were similar in length, the lion was a little heavier (by 20 kgs) on this occasion and the tiger when landing in th...