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Looks like a seal with a tiger's face!

June 14th 2007 22:28




Seal or Tiger Photograph
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SEAL OR TIGER?


Vallejo, California, 1995


Photograph by Michael Nichols

Water flies as a young white tiger shakes itself dry in a pool at California’s Marine World Africa USA. (Now called Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.)

White tigers are extremely rare in nature, and many seen in zoos today are produced through controversial inbreeding. White tigers can be born to normal-colored tigers if both parents carry the recessive gene for white coloring.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Making Room for Tigers,” December 1997, National Geographic magazine)


Seal or Tiger?


This photograph fascinates me.


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Comment by katyzzz

June 14th 2007 22:51
With that I can only agree.

katyzzz

Comment by Ash

June 14th 2007 23:35
oh wow what an amazing photo! how beautiful!

Comment by katyzzz

June 15th 2007 00:22
Ash,

I agree.

katyzzz

Comment by Jessicca

June 15th 2007 01:28
Ok... Beautiful and amazing is taken.

I can only say, "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..... He is soooooo gorgeous!"

Some how in some way, I always loved tigers. Even in Winnie the Pooh I actually prefered Tigger.

Comment by katyzzz

June 15th 2007 02:40
Yes, they are beautiful, but I suspect they bite, chew and eat you.

A bit of a worry?

katyzzz

Comment by Sarah White

June 15th 2007 20:17
As a wedding present I sponsored a white tiger from the Isle of Wight Tiger Sanctuary for Daz, he's loved tigers ever since he was a kid and got to hold one as a cub at the sanctuary. Tigers are amazing animals but there's something even more amazing about a white tiger. It's s shame they have become so endangered. Such a beautiful photo.

Comment by Sarah White

June 15th 2007 20:18
Also I want to add that even though it's in "captivity" it doesn't look sad or anything for it. Unfortunately we just live in a society today where animals aren't in the wild so much.

Comment by katyzzz

June 15th 2007 23:19
Really interesting comments Sarah, and it's a strange thing but these animals are often safer in captivity than in their natural wild habitat, where all sorts of things happen to them.

And you're right, I think that Tiger knows where his bread is buttered, smart creatures, and so much love from their keepers.

katyzzz

Comment by Jessicca

June 18th 2007 02:43
katyzzz

It's part of the circle of life. He can be beautiful, but nature has created him to be a prediator.

But who is more scary in these era?

Tigers with claws, or men with guns?

You pick

Comment by Sarah White

June 20th 2007 08:03
Katyzzz I saw this on yahoo this morning while checking my emails and thought I'd share with you. (I haven't fully read the article yet as I'm just about to rush out).

Underwater tiger wows crowds at California park

Take Care.

Sarah. xxx

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