The first white tiger to be captured was not, as is often claimed, the famed Mohan. There were several captures and a large number of sightings (and shootings) prior to this. For instance, in one of the earliest records a white tiger was displayed at
Tigers were once distributed widely across forests and grasslands from Turkey to Siberia in the northeast and the Indonesia island of Java in the southeast. This vast historical range was reduced greatly in the last 200 years through habitat loss,
Gray wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995. Now, ten years later, the reintroduction has been widely heralded as a great success.
Historically, wolves did exist in Yellowstone. According to The Wolf Almanac by Robert Busch,
Many mixed-pedigree wild horses roaming the west originated from missing 19th-Century U.S. Army cavalry mounts or Great Depression-era horses turned out by their masters.
In northern Wyoming, the Pryor Mountain wild horse herd originated with Spanish
The journey of the tiger began over 2 million years ago in Asia.
Over two million years, or more than 700 million days and nights of roaming the forest, hunting food, mating and rearing their young, and perhaps just being attentive to their
The story begins in 1862, when a European adventurer noticed a scrawny baby elephant who had been ripped from his mother for export to Europe. There, crowds were flocking to zoos and it was hoped that an African elephant - not seen in Europe since the
The Amur tiger has known stirring times. At the start of the twentiest century, when Russia just lost the war against Japan, there was anarchy in the region. When the communists took over this was not an improvement. Reserves were used by party bosses
Look back on our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse.
Anonymous
The earliest fossil records of the modern felid ancestors come from a period of just under 10 million years ago. However findings of such fossils are rare and it is difficult to piece together a comprehensive picture of the early relationship between the
A film showing slaughterhouse workers abusing animals spurs demands for the federal government to put a stop to the behavior. That happened this year -- and also a half-century ago, when a Seattle animal rights activist filmed hogs being mistreated at a
We have known it for a while, with experts and conservationists screaming from rooftops that the last census in 2002 was history and there was a fraction left of the 3,642 tigers it said India had.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Experts say the cat, once worshipped as a god in ancient Egypt, is now suffering from an image problem. The result is a movement within the pet-products and -care industry to promote kitty equality.
The pet business,
The original five members of the Druid Peak pack -- #38 and #39, the alpha male and female, and female pups #40, #41, and #42 -- were captured near Fort St. John in British Columbia and relocated to Yellowstone's acclimation pens before being released in
