Tigers

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  20 September 2010     21:0271746
  #1      
  did everyone else see the filmed report on the beeb today?
  
  for those who didn't the bbc sent a team out to the kingdom of bhutan in the himalayas trying to ascertain whether local folklore was correct.
  
  they chatted to locals who told wonderful stories of these great beast patrolling the treeline.
  
  cameras were then set up on the likely trails that tigers would use, lo and behold when the team returned and checked the shots thay actually saw a breeding pair, the lady person tiger was lactating.
  
  leaving aside that it was thought that tigers could never live so high up( 4000 metres of 13000 feet in old money), the royal family of the kingdom plus the prime minister are equally excited about the discovery and are as keen as the rest of us in wanting to ensure their survival.
  
  another strange thing is that there are leopards and snow leopards in the same area, normally they mix together as well as the pope and rick jones.
  
  the full programme is on at 9 pm tomorrow on bbc 1 or 2.
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  21 September 2010     08:0171805
  #2      
  Thanks for that info Howard. I heard about this on the radio yesterday morning but I had forgotten as the day wore on. Must tune in tonight then, very interesting that Tigers can live at such high altitude and that nobody knew about it before. Worth seeing.
  
  
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Melissa Pile

  • Location: Dover
  21 September 2010     08:3671819
  #3      
  I saw it and it fabulous news for these beautiful creatures.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  23 September 2010     14:0772117
  #4      
  just been reading about a sumatran tiger killing a worker on a palm oil plantation in indonesia.
  
  apparently there has been intense deforestation in the area causing more clashes between human, tigers and elephants.
  
  i can see the tiger's point of view, he must have seen the worker the same as we would see a burglar entering our home.