Archive for August, 2008

Endangered
August 7, 2008

 
He’s three months old,  so cute, he’s almost edible, and extremely valuable. The Pittsburgh Zoo’s tiger cub, being hand-raised after his mother’s rejection, is number three  on the gene importance list for the Species Survival Plan.  Amur tigers are critically endangered. About 500 are left  in the wilds of the Amur River region, in northeast [...]