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Stories about climate change are flagged off the front page because they are supposedly irrelevant but somehow this story remains. What gives? How is the tiger population more relevant than climate change, an existential threat to humanity and all living species?
kind of happy but also now scared to go to india. I saw a video of a guy on a motorcycle almost get mauled by one.
Astonishing. Still a long way to go, though. > Mr Modi said the results of this tiger census would make "every Indian happy". This isn't an exaggeration: Tigers are interwoven in to the Indian (and Bangladeshi?) psyche [0] owing mostly to the overwhelming guilt of almost singlehandedly causing extinction of these beasts. As the article states, in the 20th Century over 80,000 Tigers were killed in undivided India-- Th…
Stories about climate change are flagged off the front page because they are supposedly irrelevant but somehow this story remains. What gives? How is the tiger population more relevant than climate change, an existential threat to humanity and all living species?
Stories get flagged off the front page when they're repetitive, and stories get front page traction when they contain interesting/useful new information.
The recovering tiger population is interesting new information.
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The Asiatic lions did inhabit Indian sub tropical forests not 200 years ago.
They still do. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gir_National_Park .
Tigers unlike Lions are solitary animals, so these numbers are impressive +/- 10%. My home state has one of the largest numbers and I was fortunate to see a Tigress with fresh kill and couple of cubs. Truly majestic beasts these are.
Back when I saw them in Corbett national park with their kill, the thing that amazed me the most was their size. They looked bigger than a hatchback! (Ignorant me)
Jim Corbett's books have been recommended in this thread, and he talks about their behavior in the wild in great detail. Worth a read if you want to know more about them.
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If there is more muscle on a creature of approximately the same volume, then the density of muscle has increased?
But how do you know that there is more muscle? You only know that there is more mass based on the premise. My point is that muscle cells across animals don't have significantly differing density. However, different individuals (of any species) may have different levels of glycogen and fat embedded in the muscle, which may contribute to your point of "muscle density". It is just a loser terminology of muscle density a…
https://www.quora.com/Are-male-African-lions-more-muscular-a...
This suggests tigers have 72% muscle mass vs 50% hence more density?
Astonishing. Still a long way to go, though. > Mr Modi said the results of this tiger census would make "every Indian happy". This isn't an exaggeration: Tigers are interwoven in to the Indian (and Bangladeshi?) psyche [0] owing mostly to the overwhelming guilt of almost singlehandedly causing extinction of these beasts. As the article states, in the 20th Century over 80,000 Tigers were killed in undivided India-- Th…
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/03/10/a-concise-his...
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How do you beat a tiger to death? I mean, i understand this is a serious issue, about conservation, rural education, the clash between individual families living next to dangerous animals and far away state administration but .. beating a tiger ?! With sticks?!
SFW: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/world/tiger-beaten-death-indi... Info from the link, 4000 tigers remain on earth out of which 3000 in India. Wow!! just wow, take a bow - to the rangers, the NGO`s, the Govt and the population, this is something the country can be really proud about. A country with a huge population and struggling to keep pace with the rapid industrialization this is very good news. Like someone el…