Animal experts debate tiger safety
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A tiger lurked in the tall grass at a park in India as gamekeepers tried to shoot it with a dart gun and missed. The animal suddenly sprang from the grass, sailed through the air and took a swipe at a man sitting on an elephant's back.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Police believe the three people mauled by a tiger yelled and waved at the cat from atop a railing before it lunged at them, but experts say that's only a notch up from the type of taunting animals regularly endure at the nation's zoos.
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LONDON - The dog might be man&#39;s best friend, but the world&#39;s favourite animal is the tiger, says an international survey. The great Asian cat, threatened with extinction in much of its range, beat the dog
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Tiny endangered tiger cubs from Siberia have been kitted out with radio collars so that scientists can track them. They are the youngest tigers to wear the special elastic collars, says the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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Thieves have stolen a three-month-old 12-kilogram (26.5 pounds) tiger from a zoo at Frejus in southern France and keepers worry he could be turned loose into surrounding countryside and run wild, they said.
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Dozens of endangered tigers being treated for bird flu in Thailand awaited their fate at the world's largest breeding farm where 83 of the big cats have already died of the illness or been culled, an official said.
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Health officials in Thailand are to cull dozens of tigers at a private zoo to stem an outbreak of bird flu among the big cats. As many as 80 could be killed after seven tigers died, raising the death toll at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo to 30.
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Nine days after a tiger mauled three visitors, the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday with safety improvements and more signs warning people not to pester animals such as the 350-pound Siberian tiger that killed a teenager.
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Scientists meet in Malaysia to discuss how to save the critically endangered leatherback turtle.
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Science & environment: A demonstration by supporters of animal testing may reignite bitter row over the use of animals in medical research
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A mass pig hunt on the Indonesian island of Sumatra threatens tigers and other rare wildlife, campaigners fear.
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Skin and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in parts of Indonesia for traditional medicine and jewelry despite bans, a trend that could mean the big cats' eventual extinction, a conservation group warned Wednesday.
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A Chinese forestry department has apologised for publishing photographs a farmer said were of a critically endangered South China tiger but which many people believe were faked.
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By ARTHUR MAX THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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Police are investigating whether several items found in the enclosure of a tiger who fatally mauled a 17-year-old man show that the animal was attacked or taunted, San Francisco Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said Wednesday.
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Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its zoo enclosure on Christmas Day  -  killing one man and mauling two others  -  plan a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues