The Pigeon Express
Lab-grown meat company Primeval Foods has proposed to bring a whole host of exotic meats to the market, including zebra, lion, elephant, and tiger. But instead of going on a safari and butchering endangered animals, the startup is hoping to replicate the gastronomical experience by cultivating cells inside a lab, a new approach that could […]
A cleaning worker was seriously injured by a tiger at the Naples Zoo in Florida on Wednesday after the man apparently put his arm into the animal’s enclosure, authorities said. Eko, an 8-year-old Malayan tiger, was shot by a sheriff’s deputy and died, the zoo said. Deputies were called to the zoo, which was closed […]
A critically endangered Sumatran tiger was found dead after being caught in a trap on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, authorities revealed earlier this week, in the latest setback for a species whose numbers are estimated to have dwindled to about 400. The female tiger, aged between 4 and 5 years, was found dead on Sunday near Bukit […]
A woman working at a Chilean safari park died on Friday after a tiger attacked her, police said. The woman, who has not been identified by police, was among staff cleaning and performing maintenance work in the big cats’ enclosure at a safari park in the city of Rancagua, 90 kilometers south of the capital […]
Two circus tigers have been shot dead after they escaped and mauled their keeper to death in China in the latest incident of lax safety in the country’s zoos. The tigers belonged to a circus that had rented them out to a tourist attraction near the city of Nanyang in the Henan province, according to […]
A Bengal tiger named ‘India’ that has been missing in the Houston area has been located, officials said. India is secure at BARC, the city’s animal shelter and adoption agency, said Mary Benton, communications director for the city. “We are happy to report that the missing tiger seen in a Houston neighbourhood last week has […]
A stray dog painted to look like a tiger in Malaysia has gone viral on the internet. The act has now caught the attention of animal rights groups. Persatuan Haiwan Malaysia, a Malaysia Animal Association took to Facebook to urge people to come up with information about the dog so that the culprits could be […]
Wildlife entering urban areas and roaming freely is not rare a sight anymore. Recently, we have come across quite a few videos of animals roaming freely near societies and buildings. One such video of a tiger is going viral. Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda shared the aforementioned video with the caption, “All along […]
A camera-trap study in the reserve forests near Dehradun, to develop a new tiger reserve, led to the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossil remains of elephants, dating back to 5 million years. “During lockdown, such a rare discovery was a pleasant surprise, we are taking help of ‘van gujjars’ (a forest tribe), […]
A tiger was seen near a mine in Telangana’s Komaram Bheem 306 km from state capital Hyderabad, on Wednesday. Workers at the open cast mine who spotted the tiger near a village ran for cover. A 46-second video shot by one of the persons who saw the tiger shows the big cat standing on a […]
A tiger at the Nandanvan Jungle Safari in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, chased a tourist bus on Friday evening following which two officials of the park were sacked for ignoring safety protocol. A group of tourists were a part of a jungle safari when they came across two tigers fighting when suddenly one of them tried to […]
A man played dead in the middle of a field as a tiger sat over him. In videos captured by witnesses, the tiger is first seen being chased around a field while a huge crowd of villagers stands at a distance. The incident took place in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district on Saturday. Chased by a group […]