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and is unspoiled an home to grizzly bears, wolves and cougars. The forest is the scene of one of nature's most impressive migrations;

six lions lay dead in the dim headlights of an old land cruiser. Just hours earlier, dozens of Maasai men had descended upon them with sharpened spears in a fit of anger and frustration."

whose four goats had been killed by the lions.""The lions come again and again. Â Over the past several years, residents of the Kitengela plains have had an enormous problem.

The area lies on the edge of popular tourist destination Nairobi National park, a beautiful game park just 7 kilometres (4. 6 miles) from Nairobi's City Centre,

brimming with lions, rhinos, giraffes, cheetahs, and other wildlife. While the park is secured by an electric fence on three sides oe those that border the city oe the open end allows wildlife to spill out into Kintengela,

Lions have been straying outside the park at night and snacking on their form of convenience food oe local residents'cattle,

As a result of conflicts like this, Kenya has been losing on average 100 lions a year, and there are now just 2, 000 remaining in the country.

is scared of the lions oe and for good reason. He's only 13, and small for his age oe no match for a hungry feline on the prowl.

But that didn't stop him at the age of 11 from wanting to find a way of protecting his family's livestock.

and maths class oe Richard cleverly invented a completely hacked yet remarkably effective system to keep the lions away,

he noticed that lions would stay away when he walked around with a flashlight. Light fantasticthe system, called"Lion Lights Â is about as basic as you can get,

constructed from LED bulbs from broken flashlights, an old car battery, a solar panel, and a motorcycle turning light indicator box.

According to Dr Charles Musyoki, a senior scientist in carnivore issues for Kenya Wildlife Service, the flickering lights is applied an ingenious design intervention that introduces a"serious risk consideration Â for the lions.

While a steady light will not scare lions flickering lights from multiple sources confuses them, and indicates the presence of something larger than them,

although Lion Lights may seem simple, "no one else in Kenya had imagined putting the lights in this context.

and most of all is effective in keeping lions away, has impressed truly local residents. Richard has installed seven Lion Light systems for his neighbours,

and people all over Kenya have begun copying his approach. Crowdsourced conservationwith increasing pressures on land and resources,

near Amboseli, a game park in southwestern Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service has collared Â several lions with tracking devices that send text messages to cell phones of rangers

Yet despite all of these efforts, Paula Kahumbu, a Kenyan conservationist and CEO of Wildlifedirect, says that sometimes it's the local, homegrown technologies like Lion Lights that work best."

When a group of gazelles detects nearby stalking predators such as cheetahs or lions, zoologist Clare Fitzgibbon discovered that instead of running they sometimes approach

Lions and cheetahs stalk before they ambush prey, and if the gazelle make clear their awareness of the predator's presence,

despite the fact that more gazelle die from predation by hyenas than by cheetahs or lions. While it isn't only the juveniles who follow their predators oe adults do it too oe the younger gazelle face a much higher risk.

while following a cheetah is one in 5, 000 for mature gazelle, but only one in 417 for teenagers.

allowing them to better predict future encounters with cheetahs and lions. Boyz n the hoodthis falls in line with the current thinking in humans;

or cheetah or killed at the hands of their friends. Most efforts to establish the root of risky decisions made by human teenagers focus on the underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for mental processes like long-term planning and judgement.

"All that was lacking from my visit was an appearance from Ernst Blofeld clutching a white Persian cat.

South america got its first large carnivore oe the jaguar from North america oe which proceeded to eat much of the native fauna,

or like the jaguar simply consume them to extinction. We've also been spreading pests and diseases from place to place

and was under the control of lions by the fourth day, the elephants were rarely more than a few hundred metres away during daylight hours.

There, on the fifth floor, one lab is trying to catch everything from fraudulent fish, to mislabeled toy cats, to illegally prepared sheep placenta in traditional Chinese medicine.

Â There are sometimes workarounds for answering questions that barcoding can't. Birck laughs as he describes one case in which they got a little snippet of fur that had come from a stuffed cat.

but someone at customs suspected it was real cat fur that had been glued onto the outside of the toy.

A quick look under the microscope confirmed that it was, in fact, real cat hair. The US Customs and Border Protection is hoping to open similar testing facilities in other ports over the coming years.

Their studies in cats, and many other studies since, suggest that if the developing brain isn't exposed to overlapping images from the two eyes,

prowling around in a yellow and black stripy catsuit, a trend it shares with other perilous beasts from wasps to snakes.

population of Bengal tigers. Nobody knows how many tigers there are in the park because years of insurgency in Nepal have made it difficult to carry out surveys.

However, with tiger parts attracting a high price on the Asian health potions market, poaching remains a highly profitable prospect in this impoverished region.

As wild tigers (Panthera tigris) become scarcer, the price on their heads goes up: tiger bones are sold for hundreds of dollars in Taiwan, Korea and China, according to WWF figures.

A bowl of tiger penis soup (to boost virility) goes for $320, a pair of eyes (to fight epilepsy) for $170,

and powdered tiger humerus (for treating ulcers and typhoid) for $3, 200 per kilo in Seoul, according to the conservation charity.

Dropping numbersi was in Nepal to see one of the country's estimated breeding population of 120-one of perhaps 3,

000 tigers left in the world, down from 100,000 in 1900. They are the largest of the four"big cats Â

and used to be found anywhere from Siberia to Bali to Turkey. But hunting and habitat encroachment by humans have over the past century reduced their range by more than 90

%and caused the extinction of three subspecies (including the Balinese tiger). There are now six subspecies left, all of

which are classed as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature,

including the Siberian tiger, which, weighing up to 660 pounds (300 kilogrammes), is the largest; and the Bengal tiger,

which, with almost 2, 000 individuals is the most numerous. More worrying, their numbers have fallen by at least 40%in the past decade alone.

if we"run out Â of tigers? Useful, or not? After all, most people never get to see them in the wild anyway,

Moreover, all the alarming figures above relate only to tigers in the wild oe they are endangered far from in captivity.

More than five times as many tigers live in captivity as in the wild, perhaps 20,000. As we bring about what Anthony Barnosky, of University of California Berkeley,

And are wild tigers worth the $350 million global fund set up to rescue them? There is no evidence whatsoever that potions made from tiger parts have a medicinal effect that cannot be attained using other ingredients.

We do not depend on tigers for meat or skins. They do not provide transport or help plough our fields.

Unlike their far smaller cousins, you can't keep one at home to stroke and pet oe well,

Conservation benefitsbut many people would argue that tigers are an iconic animal; culturally important in several nations.

such as the Asiatic lion, which once ranged from Northern europe down to South Asia and now persists in tiny numbers (reportedly derived from just 13 individuals) in one small reserve in India.

Or the Barbary lion, the biggest and heaviest lion that was used by the Romans to fight gladiators,

The WWF justifies protecting tigers by pointing out the co-benefits for other wildlife. Individual tigers have such a big range that by protecting each tiger

around 38 square miles (100 square kilometres) of forest is conserved, including other endangered animals such as rhinos,

Because tigers are a top predator, they help regulate and conserve local biodiversity by, for example, helping keep the herbivore numbers down,

Conservationists also argue that tigers are good for the local economy because they attract wildlife/eco tourists to deprived areas in the developing world.

So, if we are going to keep wild tigers, how will we do it? Most conservation strategies rely on guarding the cats against poachers and protective farmers.

Successful efforts on India have relied on bureaucratic form-filling with identification requirements for everyone who wishes to visit tiger reserves,

armed guards and compensation for villagers whose cattle are eaten by tigers. Habitat conservation is key to preventing the animals'extinction in the wild.

Consumers are urged not to buy timber products made from tiger-inhabited forests, such as Asia Pulp & Paper brands accused by the WWF and Greenpeace of rainforest destruction in Sumatra.

But consumer pressure is unlikely to be enough. One option might be to improve tigers'commercial value in the wild through tourism.

A plan being mooted to save the orangutan an endangered ape that shares territory with tigers, is to charge tourists a hefty"conservation fee Â to see them.

Permits to view mountain gorillas in Rwanda cost at least $500. Moral imperativeperhaps the biggest problem with conserving the tigers'habitats,

though, is that the cats typically inhabit the crowded regions of the world most heavily populated by humans,

including India and China. The answer in the Anthropocene, may be assisted migration-to create a new habitat for them in foreign parts.

Li took two South China tigers which are extinct in the wild and number less than 60 in captivity oe from zoos in China to a reserve she has created in South africa.

allow them to learn the skills of a wild tiger, and eventually introduce them into reserves back in China.

and one that may be helped by findings that captive tigers in China actually retain broad genetic diversity now lost in their fewer wild relatives,

meaning that there is a the possibility of"rewilding Â tigers. And this genetic wealth also allows for the option of cloning tigers

should we be reduced to the last few. Ultimately, the reason for conserving tigers may be less to do with their ecosystem or tourist economy benefits,

but simply because they are magnificent creatures. We have a moral and ethical imperative to save them in the wild,

I don't want to be part of generation that destroyed the last wild tiger. I too like knowing that there are still tigers living in the wild.

Back in Nepal, I hear the unmistakable sound of bones being crunched by a hefty jaw.

I can smell the tiger now oe an incredibly strong musky odour, mixed with the scent of meat oe and I start to sweat

And recently, scientists said they have created ips cells from a snow leopard. These cells are a long way from saving species,

ECG Recording Using Perfused Cat Brains and Glycerol Professor Isamu Suda, of Kobe University in Japan, is renowned for devising a cryonics methodology right out of Tales from the Crypt.

Basically, the Suda technique involves deep freezing a live cat brain and then thawing it back out.

oewhat do you call dog and tiger? oei call them dog and tiger. oepencil and brush?

oeoh, theres a word for that. oeairplane and train? oei feel embarrassed I dont know. oeyou have a lot of loss of memory,

and an international expert in the study of large predators such as wolves and cougars. oewere now finding that there are many more similarities between marine and terrestrial ecosystems than weve realized,

In like fashion, the common wildebeest on the African Serengeti are less vulnerable to attack by lions

Under Mathiles direction, Iams became a world leader in premium dog and cat nutrition. In 1999, the Mathile family sold Iams to Procter & gamble for $2. 3 billion.

Steve Hundley dumped his Jaguar convertible. He stopped taking Baltic cruises. And he stopped buying his wife pricey jewelry.

500 for an outdoor artisan pizza oven. oewe dont need the Jaguar or cruises to the Baltic,

Who says that orangutans and tigers, dogs and deer, cats and birds cant all be friends somehow?

From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap,

Cats and birds are known not for their peaceful relations (just ask Tweety and Sylvester), but Snowy and Gladys are the exception to the rule.

she found an unlikely ally in Snowy the cat. The owners saw the cat washing the chick and keeping her clean

and when it was time to let her back outside, Gladys refused to go without Snowy.

Pigs and tigers seem like theyd be natural enemies, but in captivity thats not always the case:

These photos from the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand show a tiger nursing a litter of piglets

(and this tiger herself was raised by a pig). But while the process isnt unheard of, this set of images brings up bigger issues:

a cat. The feline was already nursing four kittens that were about the same size as the puppy,

so rescue workers introduced the chihuahua into the litter. A week later, the dog was doing well,

This mama cat had an even more unusual nursing applicant: a baby red panda. After its mother left, the panda joined a group of kittens being raised by a housecoat at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam,

the panda tragically died after choking on milk a few weeks after the cat adopted it.

Youre not likely to find a wild Sumatran tiger thats friends with a wild orangutan,

but at the Taman Safari animal hospital in Indonesia, abandoned primates Nia and Irma have no problem snuggling with Dema and Manis month-old tigers.

cat naps for the tigers and rope swinging for the orangutans. Christian the lion wasnt found in the wild:

He was bought at Harrods in the 1960s by John Rendell and Ace Bourke, who raised him in their flat until he outgrew the tiny living space

or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,

Erotic symbolism is used often to cover up the fact that the cat is indeed naked...Even though it was pretty damn ingenious,

Where do you think the cat flap ranks on his list of accomplishments? Rumor has it that Newton invented the cat flap

when his beloved pet kept nudging the door to his lab open while he was working on light experiments,

But he loved his cat and didnt want to shut her out of his lab or trap her inside.

Allegedly, when the cat had kittens, he cut a smaller door for them to go through

was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat, but this is the first time Ive seen car versus turkey,

Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.

#Sundaland Clouded Leopard Newly Identified Species Filmed for First time A newly identified Sundaland clouded leopard,

caught on camera for the first time ever, stalking through the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Borneo The Sundaland clouded leopard,

a newly identified and little understood species of big cat in Borneo, has been filmed for the first time. The leopard, a healthy-looking animal a metre long (3 feet) and weighing about 40 kilograms (90 pounds) was caught on video at night at the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysian Borneos Sabah

state. oewhat surprised us was clouded that while leopards are very elusive cats, this one was scared not at all,

said Azlan Mohamed, a field scientist with University Sabah Malaysia. oedespite our powerful spot lights and the roar of our vehicles engine,

he told AFP. oeit is rare to see the big cat in the wild. These cats are usually shy of humans,

it was caught by chance we it on video. The Sundaland clouded leopard was classified as a new species through genetic studies several years ago

and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature designated it as endangered in 2008.

Previously all clouded leopards living across the Southeast Asian mainland were thought to be the same species. Azlan said the Sundaland species is the biggest predator on Borneo,

However, Azlan said the researchers found the remains of a samba deer which had been killed by one of the big cats.

Article continues below This big cat can be found in lowland rainforest on Borneo and in small numbers in areas of logged forest.

But environmentalists say that the clouded leopard faces the threat of poaching while rapid deforestation and the creation of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Borneo is destroying its natural habitat.

is also home to four other threatened wild cats. Sixty cameras traps placed in Dermakot also captured images of the marbled cat

flat-headed cat, leopard cat and Borneo bay cat, all smaller in size than the Sundaland clouded leopard. oethese small cats feed on rats and mice,

he said. Azlan said the research team was oesurprised to find all five cat species in Dermakot and four of them in the neighbouring Tangkulap Forest Reserve.

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#Bees Prefer Nectar with Caffeine and Nicotine Bees are attracted to nectar which are laced with caffeine

and are seen often campaigning for people to eat more white tiger penises, which are credited with similar erotic qualities

Fat cats who owe it to their grandfathers are not getting all of the gains, #Peter Lindert told me.

Some animals that are afflicted sometimes include cows, snakes, lizards, turtles, dogs, cats and chickens. This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,

a golden retriever in Kansas who adopted 3 white Bengal tiger cubs and nursed them as her own.

Allow 4 abandoned kitties nurse from her in Aug 2000. Chia, who had a 2-week-old puppy of her own at the time,

#7.)Three baby pigs rest next to their adoptive mother, Sai Mai, an 8-year-old tiger, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand in January 2010.8.)

9.)A Siamese cat named Amanda, owned by Debbie Girting of Beaver, Pa. is shown here nursing her two newborn kittens along with an orphaned litter of puppies in March 2010.10.

The Happy Families#exhibits at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand certainly aren t run-of-the-mill.

including families of baby pigs adopted by tiger mothers and families of tiger cubs adopted by mother pigs.

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#Live to the age of 100 by following 7 simple steps 90%of people could live to the age of 90 and even reach 100 by following these simple steps.

Thanksgiving Cat is grouchy#.#but still thankful...If Superman decided to play soccer rather than do comic books,

#Copy cat...We ve all been taught that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Big cats (Lions Tigers, Leopards, etc)# An estimated 800 fatalities a year. Crocodiles#An estimated 600-800 fatalities a year.

Bees#An estimated 400-600 fatalities a year. Elephants#An estimated 300-500 fatalities a year.

and tigers have learned to respond to human voice commands. In fact most dogs are able to display a high degree of perception from being immersed in the communication of their owners.

Did you know that tigers could climb trees? Neither did the chicken...Tragically hilarious...The other side of the fence is always greener,

the ingredient theobromine is dangerous to dogs and cats. Most of us love our furry friends and it is vital you keep your favorite treats away from them.

#Top 10 Photos of the Week Todays couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and

I didnt see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: theyre crouching and hidden.##

#Scientists plan to clone Brazil s endangered species Black Lion Tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species in Brazil Scientists in Brazil want to expand a mass effort to clone the populations of eight

jaguar (Panthera onca; black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus; bush dog (Speothos venaticus; Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua;

collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla; gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira; and Bison bison bison. Bison are not native to Brazil,

The black lion tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species, is the only one that lives exclusively in Brazil.

with varying degrees of success. A 2011 effort to breed African black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in the U s. was successful,

Oh give me a home where the lions do roam...There is definitely something in the water...

Cats 1) Drink water instead of soda. And drink tap water, not bottled water. Soft drinks don t contribute much to your body beyond chemicals and empty calories,

Imagine a cat that, instead of biting you when you scratch it too hard rolls over and purrs.

We see a huge market for food,#Hu Tiger#Tao, a postdoc at Tufts University told Co. Exist.

Think of this as a wearable CAT scan system with variable-adjust focal point settings zoom powers down to a near-nano scale,

6.)Top 10 Photos February 7, 2011 Today s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and

I didn t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they re crouching and hidden.#

so did the deer populationand the hungry mountain lions, which commuted in to eat the deer and,

steer clear of the mountain lions, and squeeze into its limited office space, Boulder affords an incredible quality of lifealong with a place to do business.

#but if you re thinking about cats, we like the old saying that they have nine lives

scientist have used SCNT to clone other mammals including cat, dog, deer, horse, mule, ox, rabbit and rat.

and cats went no further than the third generation. Frustrated scientists attempted to find out why successive cloning was progressively problematic.

games and dances including Lion Dance, Gu Zheng Solo, Gong Fu, Chinese Yo-yo, Handkerchief Dance,

Cats are another story they are dedicated carnivores, as you may have noticed when they show up at the door with half-dead mice and birds as presents.

and cats who eat commercial pet food might also be gaining too much weight from the grains in it.

#7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction It's hard to imagine a world in which elephants orangutans lions

What 11 Billion People Mean for Earth's Animals Lions There are only about 20000 lions left in Africa according to Dereck Joubert a National geographic explorer-in-residence

and filmmaker who lives among the iconic big cats in Botswana with his wife Beverly. About 50 years ago there were 450000 lions a decline of more than 95 percent he said About five wild lions are killed every day throughout Africa Joubert added.

Trophy hunters mostly Americans kill about 600 lions per year typically males with large manes. More than 90 percent of these trophies are taken back to the United states

and the activity often takes place in canned hunts where lions are placed in small enclosures or even cages and then shot Joubert added.

Joubert and his wife chronicle the plight of these sought-after male lions in a new film entitled Game of Lions airing on Nat Geo Wild at 10 p m. ET on Dec 1.

Leopards Leopards have declined also by a similar magnitude Joubert said. About 50 years ago there were 700000 leopards

and today there are closer to 50000 Leopards are hunted for their beautiful coats which help to disguise them.

About 5000 leopards are killed each year he added. Orangutans In Borneo and Sumatra large companies are destroying forests

and replacing them with big swaths of palm tree monocultures (plots where only one plant is grown

which don't provide suitable habitat for most animals) threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered animals