[Leica] IMG: National Zoo, Washington DC

[CartersXRd]

<https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/new-zoo-amur-tiger>




> On Jul 1, 2018, at 10:19 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> ric
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2018, at 8:58 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>>> On 02-Jul-2018, at 04:13, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> visited the zoo with the kids on memorial day weekend
>>>> 
>>>> <http://2018.cartersxrd.net/PhotosFragmentary/national-zoo.html>
>>>> 
>>>> Ric Carter
>>>> www.CartersXRd.net
>>>> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
>>>> 
>>>> “When you don’t shoot color, you don’t have to worry about color.” —
>> Jay Hunter
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