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Lioness Gives Birth To Tigon Cubs In China (VIDEO)
Offbeat  (tags: tigon, tiger, lion, babies, cubs, China, rare, unique, animals, bizarre, odd, off-beat, interesting, news, pictures, unusual )

Lindsey
- 443 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
In case you didn't know, tigons are when a lioness and a male tiger mate. Ligers come from male lions and female tigers. Check out these cute tigons born in China. I do wish they had better enclosures...
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Amazing Tiger Photos From National Geographic
Offbeat  (tags: animals, tiger, interesting, beauitful, odd, off-beat, photos, pictures, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 524 days ago - animals.nationalgeographic.com
For National Geographic's "Big Cat Week", here are some stunning intimate photos of tigers.
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Wandering Tiger Baffles Wildlife Biologists
Offbeat  (tags: baffling, mystery, tiger, terrtitorial, wandering, biologists )

Simone
- 738 days ago - deccanchronicle.com
Wildlife biologists are baffled by a tiger which travelled over 280 kms to establish its territory as the big cats usually fight to establish territorial supremacy in the area where they are born. The biologists have now established that the tiger,
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Radio Collar 'Chokes' Big Cat
Offbeat  (tags: controversy, tiger, found, recovering, choking, radio collar, surival )

Simone
- 762 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Controversy has again struck the Sunderbans. This time, a ten-year-old male tiger caught from Dobanki seven days back is bearing the brunt. The radio collar fitted to the tiger stopped functioning about three months back, but it is yet to be removed.
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Tigers, Raise Your Hands!
Offbeat  (tags: large cats census, big cats, tiger, numbers, big forests, populations )

Simone
- 879 days ago - mid-day.com
Last big cat census shockingly left out 4 of India's big forests including sunderban. We may actually have over 1,411 tigers left
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DiCaprio Donates $1m to Save Tigers
Offbeat  (tags: DiCaprio, donating, tiger, conservation )

Tarequl
- 906 days ago - daily-sun.com
Leo-nardo DiCaprio braved scary skies to get to a summit devoted to saving the world's tigers, donating $1 million to the cause and earning high praise from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Lost Tiger Population Discovered
Offbeat  (tags: Tiger, lost, population, discovered, breeding )

Tarequl
- 972 days ago - thedailystar.net
A "lost" population of tigers has been filmed living in the Himalayas. The discovery has stunned experts, as the tigers are living at a higher altitude than any others known and appear to be successfully breeding.
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World's Tiniest Tiger Sculpture
Offbeat  (tags: tiger, offbeat, sculpture, Year of the Tiger )

Nightcat
- 1043 days ago - abc.net.au
Smaller than the head of a pin...
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Just Don't Tell These Guys That They Are Supposed to Be Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, tiger, wolf )

Cher
- 1101 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
In the wild, a chance meeting between a wolf and a tiger would not be this adorable. But, seeing as they were friends since being two weeks old, these litters of wolves and tigers share a unique bond.
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Zoo Lets Visitors 'Ride' Tiger
Offbeat  (tags: cruelty, tiger, suffering declawed, tourists, rides, outrage, chinese zoo )

Simone
- 1123 days ago - brudirect.com
A Chinese zoo has been criticised for allowing visitors to pet - and even pretend to ride - a tiger. Tourists at Wenzhou Zoo, Zhejiang province, can pose for pictures while they pretend to ride the tiger.
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Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Gloom of Night Will Stay the Royal Mail ... Just An Angry Cat
Offbeat  (tags: england, royal mail, postal workers, refuse deliver of mail, elderly cat, angry cat, Tiger )

Simone
- 1135 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Britain's postal service says it has suspended deliveries to a woman following repeated attacks by her 19-year-old cat. The Royal Mail said Friday that it had halted deliveries because postal workers had already sustained "nasty injuries" at the
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Tony the Tiger Pulled From Zoo Moat (Photo) Feeling "Grrreeaatt"
Offbeat  (tags: tony, tiger, san francisco zoo, rescued, moat, recovering, well )

Simone
- 1144 days ago - postchronicle.com
Tony the Tiger is feeling, ahem "gggggrrrRRREEEEAATTT!" Sorry, we couldn't help that one. Tony was pulled out of a dry-moat by the fire department after San Francisco Zoo officials couldn't get him to leave
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Trapped Sundarbans Tiger to Be Released Sunday
Offbeat  (tags: sundarbans, reserve, tiger, trapped rescued, released, forest, villagers )

Simone
- 1155 days ago - sify.com
A tiger from the Sundarbans biosphere reserve, which strayed into a village on the outskirts and was later tranquilised, would be released back into the forest Sunday, according to a top forest department official.
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Tiger Kills Keeper at Shanghai Zoo
Offbeat  (tags: tiger, keeper, killed, hungry tiger, unlocked gate, investigation, wild animals, shangahi zoo )

Simone
- 1170 days ago - heraldsun.com.au
A ZOO keeper has been killed by a Bengal tiger at Shanghai Zoo after apparently forgetting to lock the animal's cage. Li Zhonglin, 53, was attacked by the 10-year-old male tiger on Saturday as he cleaned outside its cage with the door unlocked, state
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Tiger Found Dead in Bannerghatta Zoo
Offbeat  (tags: tiger, found dead, araq, mystery, old age?, bennerghatta zoo )

Simone
- 1178 days ago - expressbuzz.com
The carcass of a full-grown- Tiger was found in the early morning hours at Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) on Wednesday. The dead male tiger named Araq, was 17 years old.
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