Tiger Yawn

A few nice animals endangered images I found:

Tiger Yawn

Image by Jon Pinder
Taken at South Lakes Animal Park.

Siberian Tiger

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Siberian Tiger

Image by Emmy_Animals
Looking straight into the eyes of a tiger at Flamingo Land Theme Park

This is the largest cat in the world. Its native habitat is Eastern Siberia, but is also found in Northern Korea and China.
These beautiful creatures grow to between 9’ (2.7m) and 12’ (3.6m) long. They can weigh between 28 and 46 stones (200 - 300 kilos). Tigers are carnivores; in the wild, tigers need to eat at least 20 pounds of meat a day, and can eat up to 200 pounds, (that’s about the size of a fully grown man)!

Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens)

Image by cliff1066™
Red pandas, which resemble raccoons, are about 42 inches long, including a long, bushy tail. They weigh between seven and 14 pounds. Their red-and-white markings blend in with the red mosses and white lichens that grow on the trees in which they live. Their soft, dense fur covers their entire body—even the soles of their feet. Red pandas use their long, bushy tails to balance when they're in trees. They also cover themselves with their tails in winter.

Shoebill Stork

Image by Noel C. Hankamer
Only a few zoos in the world have shoebills, so the Houston Zoo's addition of this young pair of big African birds is a significant achievement for our bird department. Named after their prominent shoe-shaped bills, shoebills are a vulnerable bird species whose feathers turn completely gray as they mature. Their large heads, eyes, and bills help them find food in muddy swamps. Shoebills can grow as tall as five feet, boast a nearly eight-foot wingspan, and weigh up to fifteen pounds. Despite their large size, relatively little is known about their habits in the wild. While some taxonomists consider them to be in the stork family, many others believe the birds are more closely related to pelicans.
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Tiger

A few nice animal sanctuary images I found:

Tiger

Image by jsutcℓiffe
At Colorado Wild Animal Sanctuary, www.wildanimalsanctuary.org/

Tiger

Image by jsutcℓiffe
At Colorado Wild Animal Sanctuary, www.wildanimalsanctuary.org/

Captured tiger cub

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Captured tiger cub

Image by Pavel Sigarteu
This poor guy was at the "Tiger Temple" in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand.
I don't recomand this trip at all. Although it sounds nice touching the tigers and taking their pictures it's not as cool as you may think.

The big tigers look as if on drugs and they just lie there sleeping all day. It looks sad and somehow you feel that this animals are used commercially just to bring money to the monks. Some other people in this region started capturing/buying/getting tigers and now they are happy to present those in cages for tourists - for money of course. It's very different than in a Zoo, at least in a Zoo they have a relatively big area for the tigers to move and are being taken care by professionals. Here are aprox 15 tigers in chains - the big ones sleeping all the time (strange) and tones of people visiting every day putting money in this monastery. I understand it's hot and the tigers have to do this every day, probably are very bored, but not a single tiger moving from aprox 10 adults?

Second, you are not allowed to take pictures of the big tigers (Imagine my shock to hear that after traveling so much) . Some volunteer will take your hand and bring you behind the sleeping tigers and other volunteer will take your camera and take some snapshots of you touching the tiger. You do this for aprox 5 big sleeping tigers, 2 photos per each tiger (one landscape and one portrait). Or you can buy the "Special Photo" treatment and they take the sleeping tiger head and put it in your lap and somebody takes a photo of that.

My photos are with the tiger cubs, these have a different treatment than the adults. At least these seem like normal "alive" animals - but still in chains.

Ang taking a picture of a wombat

Image by danoxster
at the wildlife centre in darling harbour
and here's the picture