Posts tagged with tiger

September 23rd 2010

Bannerghatta National Park Big Cats In Trouble

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Poor guys, they seem to have got some bug or something. It has been a sad week with 5 big cats dying in the past week at Bangalore’s Bannerghatta National Park or Biological Park. Two of them were old Bengal tigers and a White Tiger who, officials say, has died of an almost 3 months [...]

May 25th 2009

Vandalur Zoo Chennai Trip

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A couple of weeks back Nafisa and I found ourselves at Renie’s house in Chennnai a.ka. IndiBlogger headquarters. The reason for the sudden visit was to visit my Dad who was supposed to undergo an eye operation. Finally, that didn’t happen and it got postponed to June 2nd week. So what did that leave both [...]

September 23rd 2008

White Tiger

Without mentioning the White Tiger there is no way I can get away with a week of posts on Hybrid and Mutant Animals. The White Tiger is the most famous of all animal mutations since this does occur occasionally in the wild without human intervention. I’ve seen a couple at the Bannerghatta National Park in [...]

September 22nd 2008

Golden Tabby Tiger

This is another interesting mutation, this time on tigers. The golden tabby tiger or golden tiger is an extremely rare colour variation caused by a recessive gene and now found only in captive tigers. Like the white tiger it is a colour form and not a separate species. It is sometimes referred to as the [...]

December 8th 2007

My Daemon Is A Tiger

And her name is Hermonysha. WordPress is not letting me embed flash. Or maybe I am doing something wrong. So read more at http://anwinj.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-daemon-is-tiger.html or http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/?599867