Sunday 29 March 2015

Well, This Is Embarrassing...



...although I suppose it's good to know the 'Daily Mail' hires the learning disabled or illiterate.

5 comments:

Budvar said...

Tigers? In Kenya?

Furor Teutonicus said...

I am seriously begining to think they either do this on purpose, or they geuinly do NOT know the difference.

Either way, the papers them selves do not appear to give a shit.

Dr Evil said...

Are these he very rare African Tiger, Felis occultus, which has no stripes, a tope coloured coat and the males of which have a large mane? You know the ones, they look just like Lions. It's a form of convergent evolution. They are even smaller and weaker than the Bengal Tiger and live in groups so as to blend in better.

Uncle Badger said...

When I was a youngster I had an argument (in as much as a child can ever argue against an adult) with a Ghanaian who insisted they had tigers in Ghana.

Many years later, someone suggested to me that they called anything large and feline a 'tiger' and that perhaps he meant it that way. but I was, and remain, sceptical.

JuliaM said...

"Tigers? In Kenya?"

Actually, there is a sanctuary rehabilitating big cats in one African country that does have free-ranging (within a reserve) tigers. So it's not impossible!

"Either way, the papers them selves do not appear to give a shit."

Maybe because the readers don't..?

"It's a form of convergent evolution. "

:D

"Many years later, someone suggested to me that they called anything large and feline a 'tiger'..."

There's some truth to that.

There's a Tigersberg mountain in South Africa (named for the leopards that inhabited it!) and in South America, 'tigre' is the local nomenclature for the jaguar.