Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am really tempted to go to India for that reason... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > KC, > Except that the world population of tigers and rhinos is declining > alarmingly, and mainly because of traditional Chinese medicine - they have > wiped out their own wild stocks long ago, and now they are laying bare to > the rest of the world. Both are used as aphrodisiacs of all the things > (Tiger Penis Soup!) - why they cannot be encouraged to use Viagra instead > is > beyond me. This year is expected to be especially bad, for it is the "Year > of the Tiger" in the Chinese calendar, and blessedly it wont come back for > 12 years. Why do you think I keep going to see and photograph tigers? > Because I think, in a generation, you will only see them in fenced off > parks, i.e. glorified zoos. People who have not seen animals in the wild, > especially the big cats and large herbivores, have no idea of their power > and majesty! > > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]