Tag Archives: Wildlife
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Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhinoceros dies
24 November 2019 | A Ananthalakshmi
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The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia died on Saturday, leaving the smallest species of rhino, which once roamed across Asia, surviving in small numbers mostly in Indonesia. ...
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India lost 41 tigers from poaching this year
13 August 2015 | Nirmala George
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Six months after India boasted that its tiger population was growing fast, conservationists on Wednesday said 41 big cats had already died this year and worried that the country was not doing enough to save them. ...
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World’s oldest big cat fossils discovered in Tibet
13 November 2013 | Jennifer S Holland
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Scientists have found the oldest big cat fossil yet, dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old, suggesting the big cats such as Tigers and Leopards might have evolved in Central Asia and spread out. ...
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Polar bear hunting and migration ‘hit by warming climate’
20 March 2013
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One of the most southerly populations of polar bears now has only limited time to hunt on sea ice due to a warming climate, research suggests. ...
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Chiru: an antelope under threat due to craze for shahtoosh
13 December 2012 | Dharmendra Khandal
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There were about ten hundred thousand chirus residing on the Tibet plateau some 50 years ago, according to reports. Now, this number has been reduced to a mere 75,000. ...