[Leica] IMG: National Zoo, Washington DC

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Great. Thanks
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:43 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
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:
> >
> > 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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