Which zoo animals are most active in winter and what times are best to see them?

Not all animals retreat to their shelters in cold weather.

Samantha Ward, Associate Professor of Zoo Animal Welfare, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
Dec. 27, 2023 • ~6 min

Wild animals that survive limb loss are astonishing – and a sign of the havoc humans are wreaking on nature

When wild animals survive the initial trauma, blood loss and infection risk without medical help, it’s astonishing that they can adapt to life with three limbs.

Tara Pirie, Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, University of Surrey • conversation
Oct. 25, 2023 • ~7 min

Did sabertooth tigers roar or purr?

The shape of a few small bones may be the key to what sounds—a mighty roar or a throaty purr—a sabertooth tiger made.

Tracey Peake-NC State • futurity
Aug. 22, 2023 • ~6 min

Why declawing is really bad for tigers

"...declawing a cat is not like trimming our fingernails; rather, it is removing part or all of the last bone of each digit."

Tracey Peake-NC State • futurity
Aug. 1, 2023 • ~5 min

Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study

Deforestation rates are lower in tiger reserves.

Simon Evans, Principal Lecturer in Ecotourism, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
May 25, 2023 • ~5 min

Tigers more willing to cross the road during COVID lockdown

Tigers in Nepal were two to three times more likely to cross highways when COVID-19 lockdowns led to dramatic reductions in traffic.

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
Feb. 6, 2023 • ~10 min

Roads and railway would threaten tiger survival in Nepal park

"Tiger deaths along the roads and railways would reduce the tiger population from around 130 animals to just 50 animals over a 20-year period."

U. Michigan • futurity
May 20, 2022 • ~3 min

Vietnam Artist Marks the Year of the Tiger
VOA Learning English • voa
Jan. 28, 2022 • ~2 min

Hydroelectric dams take toll on endangered big cats, study shows

One in 200 jaguars are likely to be affected by dams, versus one in five tigers.

Tara Pirie, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Wildlife Research Group, University of Reading • conversation
Dec. 16, 2021 • ~6 min

What’s behind the illegal ‘tiger bone glue’ trade?

Tigers bred on farms in Asia end up in high-pressure cookers, where bones are dissolved to make "tiger bone glue," thought to cure a variety of ailments.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
Dec. 7, 2021 • ~7 min

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