[Leica] IMG: National Zoo, Washington DC

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks for the zoo coverage, and the educational link, Ric.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/1/2018 10:13 PM, CartersXRd via LUG wrote:
> <https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/new-zoo-amur-tiger>
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>> On Jul 1, 2018, at 10:19 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> If it is a Siberian Tiger, it is a juvenile, because they are the largest
>> cats on the planet!
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>> 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.
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>> Amur Leopard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXAmEDFFero
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>> Siberian/Amur Tiger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNjabMqfoo
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>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
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>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:11 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> I think this is an Amur
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>>> ric
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>>>> 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
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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>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ric Carter
>>>>> www.CartersXRd.net
>>>>> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
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