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


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

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

Tigers may need a ‘genetic rescue’

A "genetic rescue" involving the mating of different subspecies may offer the best way to save increasingly fragmented tiger populations.

Ker Than-Stanford • futurity
Feb. 22, 2021 ~7 min

Experts debunk a few things about ‘Tiger King’

Biologists explain why private zoos like those in "Tiger King" are bad for big cats, what the series got wrong, and what's next for tiger conservation.

Rob Jordan-Stanford • futurity
May 5, 2020 ~9 min

15,000 miles of new roads will cut tiger habitat

Plans to build nearly 15,000 miles of road through tiger habitats in Asia by mid-century will up the risk for the big cat's extinction, researchers warn.

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
May 1, 2020 ~8 min


‘CSI’ conservation uses tiger spit and conch fritters

A new way to track endangered species uses bits of DNA in things like feces and saliva. "It's CSI meets conservation biology."

Rob Jordan-Stanford • futurity
April 19, 2019 ~5 min

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