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After reading The Jungle Book and discovering the quiet sense of dread, accompanied by a slight tingle up my spine that Sher Khan could induce, I vowed to one day meet this beast
Jungle is a Hindi word. Where Africa has savannas and bush, India is thick with tropical groves, towering bamboo, sal and teak. Strangler vines rise 50 feet and creep from tree to tree.
Only 21 of the United States fully ban the private ownership of big cats, a peculiar fact when you consider that even domestic pet owners who knowingly possess dangerous animals subject themselves to legal liability.
I love my travel and I love my photography. On a personal level, I always try to experience the best of both. Seeing the world with different eyes and...
When Kellogg's announced that it is moving to limit the deforestation caused by the palm oil it uses to make Girl Scout cookies, it represented an enormous achievement for two 15-year-old girls from Michigan.
One of the great things about being a film geek in Kansas City is that we are in throwing distance of a pair of two wonderful festivals that celebrate terrific movies from the past and first-rate documentaries.
A hundred years ago there were 100,000 tigers in the wild. Today there are as few as 3,200.
Ullas Karanth's studies have concluded that tigers and people cannot coexist in the same place. He therefore advocates and implements programs that relocate tribal communities living in wildlife reserves to other regions.
I recently interviewed Belinda Wright, founder of the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) and an award winning pioneer in the fight to save the tigers of India.
We must find new ways of working together around the world to eliminate the consumer demand for tiger parts and to crack down on illegal trade in tiger parts.
Sometimes animals that wouldn't normally socially interact break the mold and become friends, transcending or ignoring instinct and how science says t...
Sparky Anderson, who died Thursday, was the kind of manager even reporters cheered. Read more here . . . http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/11/04/spa...
I write a blog for Animal Planet called Animal Oddities and I often feature stories of animals that show up in odd places. Despite such entertaining ...
Tigers have long been one of the most intimidating and captivating creatures in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately, they are no match for poachers or the destruction of their natural habitats and are now facing extinction.
"That tiger's just pacing around your brain, making a mess in there," a writer friend told me. "You've got to let it out." Eventually, I did.
A 55 pound sack of tiger bones from a single tiger, a tiger once wild and now caged in a tenement zoo enclosure, can be worth up to $250,000.
