[Leica] IMG: National Zoo, Washington DC

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

If it is a Siberian Tiger, it is a juvenile, because they are the largest
cats on the planet!

The leopards from that area are called the Amur Leopards - the single
rarest big cat in the world today, and arguably the most beautiful, but the
tigers are more commonly called Siberian Tigers, though Amur Tiger is also
used. They get really huge, like the Polar Bear, because of the extra fur
and fat needed to survive the extreme weather in their ecosystem. The irony
is there are probably more Siberian Tigers in captive farms in Russia/China
being bred and  harvested for body parts, to feed the insatiable Chinese
"traditional medicine" market, than in the wild today. I would guess that
99% of the footage of the Siberian Tigers you see are taken in tiger farms,
because of the sheer difficulty posed in finding one in the wild, let alone
filming them The estimates are that less than 100 Amur Leopards and 500
Siberian Tigers are left in the wild today.

Amur Leopard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXAmEDFFero

Siberian/Amur Tiger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNjabMqfoo


Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:11 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I think this is an Amur
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> > On Jul 1, 2018, at 8:58 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > Very enjoyable set. My pick is the three girls taking a selfie, and the
> highlighted one. Is that tiger a Sumatran tiger? Looks a bit small for a
> Bengal tiger...
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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> > Sent from my iPad
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> >> On 02-Jul-2018, at 04:13, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
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> >> visited the zoo with the kids on memorial day weekend
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> >> <http://2018.cartersxrd.net/PhotosFragmentary/national-zoo.html>
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> >> Ric Carter
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> >> “When you don’t shoot color, you don’t have to worry about color.” —
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