In a move sure to rustle feathers on old Nassau Street and be the talk of this year’s Reunions, the Wall Street Journal this morning scooped the Princeton Alumni Weekly, reporting that Ivy Club member Andrew Casperson ‘99 and fellow Tiger James McIntryre are rousing rabble like it’s House Parties ‘97: Casperson has…
Two white tigers have reportedly died at a Crimean zoo during a two-week blackout, according to reports.
According to the BBC, six suspected tiger poachers were killed in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans forest on Sunday during a gunfight with police. Authorities reportedly began cracking down on poaching after a recent survey found just 106 tigers left in the forest, down from 440 animals 10 years ago.
A rescue worker in the Tbilisi flood zones was dramatically mauled by a tiger in front of several of his co-workers—just a day after the Georgian government assured residents that all the escaped zoo animals had been located.
According to French authorities, a tiger is on the loose near Disneyland Paris. Please, if you're currently visiting the tourist destination, stay indoors and quit bragging about your fun vacation jesus christ.
A white tiger being kept at an zoo in New Delhi, India mauled a visitor to death on Tuesday after the man jumped into the tiger's enclosure. The attack, which was caught on video by a witness, reveals that officials did not intervene until it was too late.
Good news for people who love tiger news: This 25-day-old black tiger exists. The unnamed, cute-as-hell cub resides in Hangzhou, eastern China, where it uses a dog as a wet nurse and "owns the color of black due to pseudo-melanism," according to ChinaFotoPress.
The London Zoo is being investigated after allegations that drunken, lucrative after-hours parties are putting the animals' welfare in danger. Hammered, sometimes naked guests have repeatedly tried to enter animal enclosures, and in one case, "a beer [was] thrown over a tiger," the Guardian reports.
Five new white tiger cubs born in an Austrian Zoo and thought to be the first litter of five white tiger cubs in all of Europe, have made their first public appearance today in the media. Their names? Lila, Lulu, Lela, Lali, and Obama. Interesting choice.
Thirteen years ago, a lion, tiger, and bear were rescued from the basement of an Atlanta drug dealer's home. Now living in Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary, the three are now the biggest BFFs in the animal kingdom.
An Amur tiger walks across a passageway after a news conference at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday. The mesh pathway, called Big Cat Crossing, is part of a concept called animal rotation that zoos use to enrich the experience of both creatures and guests. Image via Matt Slocum/AP.
Siegfried and Roy, Masters of the Impossible and Owners of Several Lions and Tigers, are mourning the loss of Mantecore, the white tiger who both attacked Roy on stage and once saved his life.
A Chinese man narrowly escaped a bloody death over the weekend after he leaped into a zoo's white tiger enclosure and attempted to get himself eaten. He was apprehended by zookeepers and escaped with only minor injuries.
Heads up if you're planning on traveling to northern India soon: A single tiger has reportedly killed at least 10 people in the region over the past seven weeks.
[Sumatran tiger cub Bandar continued to charm the camera during his public debut at the National Zoo in Washington on Monday. His less-photogenic sister, Sukacita, was also introduced to the public. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin via AP]
A G.W. Exotic Animal Park employee was mauled by an adult male tiger today after she put her arm inside the tiger's cage.
The five Indonesian men trapped in a tree for five days by Sumatran tigers have been rescued.
A group of six Indonesian men were attacked by several tigers on Thursday, forcing five of the men to climb a tree, where they've remained since. The sixth man was mauled to death as he attempted to join his partners in the tree. Help for the trapped men reportedly won't arrive until sometime Wednesday.
Scientists have discovered the genetic trait that results in white tigers, something originally only explained by Just So Stories logic. The trait, which caused their fur to have white accents rather than orange ones, was long known to be a recessive trait. New research has isolated a change in a specific part of one…
Well, he didn't "lose" it, really. A tiger took it, with its mouth.
