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.

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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. "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.

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