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Tigers are underrated and I love them

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Tigers are an underrated big cat. I love leopards. But tigers get no respect. Tigers are ambush predators, and clearly, they’re very good at it. Like I said, tigers get no respect. They don’t have to be ambush, precision hunters because there’s multiple of them. Tigers are solitary hunters.

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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. Kaziranga has one of the densest populations of Bengal Tiger in India. The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are one of the four existing species in the genus Panthera , and with males weighing in at up to 550lbs are second in size only to Tigers. They live for up to 100 years.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

Lango Camp deck overlooking Lango Baï, by Congo Conservation Company The forests of the Congo Basin contain more than a 1,000 species of birds, together with 400 species of mammals, including Okapi, Hippos, Leopards, Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Ba’Aka people are among the most well-known representatives of an ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. ” I’ll give you a hint, it’s not hunters!

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