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]]> News Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/artrank.php?productid=11948576 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006544 NEWS.com.au ELEVEN Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months. The tigers of the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in northeast ...  - ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006544 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006542 Colorado State University News (press release) These managers are charged with protecting a diverse array of lands and wildlife including the Asian elephant, Asiatic lion, and Bengal tiger throughout the ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006542 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006543 The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Police and state wildlife officials are searching wooded areas and neighborhoods along the border of Manalapan and Marlboro ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006543 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006541 USC News The award went to Laurie Marker, the co-founder and executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia; and Stuart Pimm, ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006541 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006539 Business Standard In 2005, the task force I chaired to look into tiger conservation suggested the method of counting be changed in order to be more accurate. This was done. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006539 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006540 China Daily Another privately-owned zoo in Shenyang, Guaipo Tigers Zoo, has over 30 Siberian tigers. But in winter when tourists are scarce, it has to buy tiger feed on ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006540 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006538 Christian Science Monitor ?I think the fact that cheetahs are an endangered species, and nobody was doing anything about it, that was the reason I started this center,? says Ms. Van ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006538 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006537 Sify Eleven Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months, a wild life official said. The tigers of the Shenyang Forest ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006537 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006534 Palisadian-Post 'I eat meat,' roars a cheetah, 'especially antelope!' 'I am one of the biggest reptiles in the world,' boasts a Komodo dragon. 'I am a cat. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006534 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006536 Pembroke Express Mountain lions, also known as cougars, pumas or catamounts, are large, brownish cats that generally weigh between 100 and 200 pounds. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006536 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006532 FOXNews (blog) That's when she heard a terrible screeching noise, and at first thought it was a mountain lion or bobcat. The attack happened so fast, she didn't even see ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006532 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006530 FOXNews The Year of the Tiger has got off to a tragic start for the endangered big cat in China. At least 11 Siberian tigers starved to death in a zoo in ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006530 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006531 Associated Press of Pakistan BEIJING, March 11 (APP): A total of 11 Siberian tigers died over the past 3 months in a zoo in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local animal protection ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006531 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006533 Times Online The Year of the Tiger has got off to a tragic start for the endangered big cat in China. At least 11 Siberian tigers starved to death in a zoo in ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006533 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006529 ReporterHerald.com Spowart responded to one house where the mountain lion killed a deer and cached it to eat later. The cat had tucked the carcass right up against the house. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006529 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006526 The Coloradoan ... wildlife school is to assess whether or not there really is a problem. I came to the conclusion that there was indeed a problem - a real mountain lion. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006526 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006527 Associated Press of Pakistan BEIJING, March 11 (APP): A total of 11 Siberian tigers died over the past 3 months in a zoo in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local animal protection ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006527 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006525 Telegraph.co.uk It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006525 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006524 Easier (press release) ... landscape themed Snow Leopard enclosure. The new visitor centre will host Himalaya - a Wildlife and Wilderness Watercolour Artist Exhibition from Friday ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006524 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006523 People's Daily Online A total of 11 Siberian tigers died over the past 3 months in a zoo in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local animal protection officials said Thursday. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006523 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006520 Earthtimes (press release) Despite his assertion that the lions of Gujarat ?continue to be a big headache for us,?. Ramesh has praised the Gujarat model of wildlife management where ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006520 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006518 AllAfrica.com DR Laurie Marker, the Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia, and Professor Stuart Pimm of Duke University in Durham, ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006518 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006522 Fresno Bee Tigers, for example, have ranges of 30 to 40 square miles in the wild, said Andy Snider, Fresno Chaffee Zoo's director of animal care and conservation. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006522 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006521 Glenwood Springs Post Independent A mountain lion was caught by a motion-sensing camera as it prowled a closed portion of the Rio Grande Trail last month. The female is hanging out near Rock ... ]]> Spot Bot News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006521 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006517 Botswana Press Agency Mr Mothibe said the time is now ripe for them to request the ministry to allow them to hunt as wild life has now multiplied especially Kudus, leopards and ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006517 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006516 Lanka Times Education Officer of the Zoo Nihal Senerath told The Island yesterday that in return they had given a pair of giant squirrels and a rusty spotted cat. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006516 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006515 Los Angeles Times (blog) Marker founded an organization in Namibia to study and protect the cheetah, an animal she has worked with for more than 30 years. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006515 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006513 OCRegister Other wildlife includes rabbits, snakes, coyotes and Babe the Bobcat. Babe is a local resident who, although seldom seen, has been tagged and dines on ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006513 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006512 Daily Mail The roll-call, detailed in a shocking report, includes mammals such as the wildcat and northern right whale, birds such as the great auk and red-backed ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006512 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006511 Systems The Utah Guard provides KC-135 Stratotankers and personnel for African Lion, an annual Marine Corps-led exercise with Morocco. Tennessee, which does not yet ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006511 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006528 Ethiopian Review The wildlife protection office of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture confirmed that the animal they killed was a snow leopard, said Yang Jianwei, ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006528 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006510 Mongabay.com Other species found around the floating forest habitat include peccary, tapir, ocelot, giant armadillo, giant anteater, puma, and tyra among others. ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006510 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006507 A study on the past extinction of large mammals in India by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Duke University, and other groups has found that country's protected area system and human cultural tolerance for some species are key to conserving the subcontinent's tigers, elephants, and other large mammals. ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006507 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006508 About - News and Issues (blog) The Maasai will defend their cattle against any and all predators, and the lion situation in Kenya is already quite dire. Hence the zebra shipment, ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006508 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006509 Times of India The state government has admitted that 72 lions died in the Gir sanctuary in the past two years. Of them, one was killed by poachers and the rest, ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006509 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006505 Metro Canada - Calgary Four hundred pounds of Siberian tiger travelled in a crate to Calgary from New York via FedEx, and is now ready for Calgary Zoo visitors to meet. ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006505 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006506 American Forests This single project is benefitting endangered species like the ocelot and jaguarondi, but also more than 490 species of birds and over 300 species of ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006506 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006503 Policy Innovations ... Persian leopard (Panthera pardus), leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), and yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) in Afghanistan. ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006503 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006502 Bostonist A contractor in Duxbury reported seeing a mountain lion last week and snapped pictures of the animal's tracks in the snow. State wildlife experts reviewed ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006502 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006501 Sioux Falls Argus Leader ?We are in the process of updating South Dakota's mountain lion management plan,? said Tony Leif, GF&P Wildlife Division director. ?An important early step ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006501 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006500 Telegraph.co.uk One evening, we saw leopards mating from about 15ft away, and my camera made a noise that made one of them look right at me. Another time, an elephant came ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006500 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006519 Before It's News The world's economic crisis could potentially affect the food supply for South African lions, according to a recent appeal by the SanWild Wildlife ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006519 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006504 is knock-your-socks off fantastic. Seven years in the making, the all-animal cast performs feats of daring, acts of subterfuge, and engages in fantastical flirting, all captured with crazy high-def cameras that had a lifelong devotee of nature programs like myself practically gasping out loud at the NYC premiere event last week. I'm talking totally amazing cinematography and painstakingly-procured shots (one of which- an English forest scene only a minute long - ) of animals and plants doing what we love to watch them do. Narrated beautifully by (David Attenborough narrates the BBC/UK version), I was lost in wonder for the length of the screening, which began with a cheetah hunting an ostrich, and ended with a dolphin's narrow escape from an Orca. In between mantis stretched it's legs in Madagascar, chameleons showed off their insance colors, Ibex fleed from foxes in Israel, flying fish in slo-mo skimmed the waves, hippos clashed over mates, grebes walked on water just for the joy of it, poison arrow frogs went to great lengths to protect their young (and an octopus gave its life for the next eight-legged generation), capuchin monkeys used tools and so much more. Tune in at 8pm on Sunday March 21st to catch the magic on Discovery and other channels (check local listings). A sneak preview of "Life": Here's how one of the planet's smaller creatures makes a getaway. BUT. To walk out of a beautifully put-together film highlighting "life" in all it's multifarious beauty - which goes without saying is in peril worldwide, primarily due to human beings and our actions - to walk out in a sense of wonder at the life that surrounds us, and to smell cooking hamburgers, well it just stole the magic. Yup, mini-hamburgers and the smell of meat were what greeted us after the showing. And I feel compelled to write about it, because it is EXACTLY this disconnect between our actions and our intentions that has brought us to the brink of the major extinction that we are at the helm of. As omnivores, we have the choice to eat and enjoy a terrific variety of foods, and can live very healthfully (probably even more so) eschewing meat from our diets. And before you mention it, please don't compare me or the other well-dressed attendees of the Lincoln Center premiere of Life to wild animals we watched who must eat what they can catch, when they can catch it. We humans have developed agriculture, food processing and cooking, and even restaurants. And however you feel about the eating of animals (I'm not even going to go into animal cruelty here), nobody can deny the fact that meat takes an incredible amount of energy - and produces tons of emissions, compared to veggies: Cows (a greenhouse gas), takes and create more CO2 per pound than almost any other food. Climate change directly affects the viability of animals' habitats (and less habitat means fewer animals, plants and insects). Cattle farming is responsible for rainforest destruction in South America, and that some local water supplies are rendered undrinkable near hog farms. We also poach and eat () other animals out of existence or nearly so. While this might not convince everyone to be a vegetarian tomorrow, is it so much to ask that a film celebrating life (and PR team promoting it) would respect it a little more? Would a single veggie meal make anyone feel terribly deprived or something? We are NOT the wild animals we watched on the screen, we have choice. I let my consternation be known to the Discovery team. I wrote: "We are very healthfully able to eschew carbon-producing, energy intensive foods like beef and fish, who have enough pressure on their populations and habitats-thanks to our voracious appetites-as is." Amber Harris, Manager of Digital Communications at Discovery had this to say in response: "We certainly support everyone's ability to make their own dietary decisions (including cheetahs, Komodo dragons, humpback whales and humans, too). That being said, we offered a variety of options for everyone to select from." Serving meat and fish at an event centered around the gloriousness of life is the very definition of cognitive dissonance. My date and I left disgusted, but not surprised, and walked uptown to , where the proprietors truly care about life - and animals- by not eating them. Read more: , , , , ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006504 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006498 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) In this region of East Africa you can track cheetah, antelope, gazelle, and eland. There is no point booking a tour or Kenyan safari that only excites some ... ]]> Spot Bot News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.bigcats.com/spotbotnews?id=0000006498