Bengal Tigers Are Becoming Smaller Due To Stress: Study

Discovery News:

India's endangered Bengal tiger is dwindling not only in numbers, but also in stature, according to a recent survey that suggests the famed big cats are getting physically smaller.

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Comments

[PayItFwd]

02:09 AM on 12/13/2010

People don't care. The only animals people care about are the ones they want to keep as pets or the ones they want to eat. All the other animals might as well go extinct as far as humans are concerned. We have quite a future ahead of us.

[HLL]

09:13 AM on 12/13/2010

Proud to be your #1 fan. Agree with your assessment, but for myself, I'm with Gandhi: "The life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being." ☮

[goodluckflower]

12:47 AM on 12/13/2010

I do hope they mean the tigers are not growing as large as they used to, not actually shrinking.

[wordsfromawoman]

11:59 AM on 12/12/2010

I think i shall never see a movie star as beautiful as a tiger.

Play of words aside, i feel like crying each time i read about how soon this beautiful species, and so many others, will be extinct in the wild in a decade or so. Gotta make room for the billions of useless homo sapiens!

[GreenAmbition]

11:44 AM on 12/12/2010

hey China...every powerful animal you kill and eat doesn't make you stronger or more virile...thank you for letting them on this Putin!

[Karen McCaughan]

11:40 AM on 12/12/2010

On a slightly irreverent note, I wish I would shrink when I am stressed.

[jmcaninch68]

10:48 AM on 12/12/2010

Being turned into tiger paste probably doesn't help much.

[HLL]

04:21 PM on 12/11/2010

For everyone who loves tigers, we can help ♥  =^..^=  â™¥  â˜®  â™¥ 

"The living self has one purpose only; to come into its own fullness of being,
as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into Spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre."
 ~ D. H. Lawrence

Education For Nature ~ Save Vietnam's Tigers:
http://www.envietnam.org/our-work/save-vietnams-tigers.html

World Wildlife Fund - Save Tigers Now:
http://www.savetigersnow.org/

Save The Tiger Fund:
http://www.savethetigerfund.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home1

Save Our Tigers:
http://www.saveourtigers.com/

Save China's Tigers:
http://english.savechinastigers.org/

WWF: You Can Help Save The Tigers:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/tigers/save_the_tiger/

Saving Wildlife: The Wildlife Conservation Society—Tigers:
http://www.wcs.org/saving-wildlife/big-cats/tiger.aspx

NYTimes - A Modest Plan To Save Tigers:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/a-modest-plan-to-save-the-tigers/

YouTube - Save The Tiger!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIgIVXyR1-c

DiCaprio pledges $1 million dollar$ to save tigers:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/DiCaprio+pledges+million+dollars+save+tigers/3872331/story.html