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Top 10 Rarest Big Cats ( Pantherines , Acinoyx and Puma )

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South China Tiger Maybe few or Extinct in the Wild ? submitted by /u/Character-Sorbet-718 [link] [comments]

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

10,000 Birds

A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.”

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Russians Introducing Leopards Back to Caucusus

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While I think the gesture is nice, it appears to be more of a publicity stunt to head off environmental criticism of the 2014 Olympic Games construction. "We Russia won the right to host 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and major construction works are about to begin. We are standing here and admiring your animals.

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Mexico Beat BBOTY

10,000 Birds

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron: I had seen this wonderful bird several years before in Veracruz state, near the Gulf of Mexico. Rufous-naped Wren: The lowest ranked 2020 lifer on my list, only because it is extremely common in tropical Mexico, and I was bound to see it eventually. Another Acapulco sighting. .

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Our elected officials must recognize that beating elephants with bullhooks—heavy batons with a sharp metal hook on the end that can tear elephants’ skin—and whipping tigers until they cringe and cower, are ethically indefensible. June 16, 2014' Why is the United States lagging so far behind?

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Duncan’s 2014 List

10,000 Birds

Tiger Shrike ( Lanius tigrinus ); Kundasang, Borneo, 7 January. Pied Triller ( Lalage nigra ); Mantanani Island, Borneo, 2 January. PACHYCEPHALIDAE (WHISTLERS). Bornean Whistler ( Pachycephala hypoxantha ); Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, 6 January. LANIIDAE (SHRIKES). ORIOLIDAE (ORIOLES).

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Collaborative List – October 2018

10,000 Birds

Fasciated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma fasciatum. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum. Rufescent Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma lineatum. Worm-eating Warbler – Helmitheros vermivorum. Forest Park. 27 Apr 2018. Blue-winged Warbler – Vermivora cyanoptera. Forest Park. 27 Apr 2018. Near Finca Sura.

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