Tigers are hunted

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Tigers are killed for body parts used in traditional medicines. The biggest threat facing Amur tigers is habitat loss due to logging. As they lose habitat, they lose prey, which means they sometimes turn to domestic livestock for food. This makes them unpopular with ranchers, who may shoot them as pests.

And tigers are killed for other reasons: they're hunted for their meat and skins as well as their bones, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Poaching of tigers has become an increasing problem in recent years, and it's taking a heavy toll on these mighty cats.

Most Siberian tigers are killed for export to China. As a member of CITES, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is (allegedly) committed to stopping the illegal trade of animals, such as tigers, and consequently the decline of their population. However, tiger products are in evidence in China. The State Council of the PRC however reported that existing stockpiles of tiger derivatives in China were obtained before China joined CITES.

Tigers are falling prey to unscrupulous hunters who are indiscriminately killing them for measly amounts on the behest of bigger fishes. The sad part is the protectors of tigers have become hand in glove with the poachers in killing one of the magnificent creations of GOD. The main reason behind killing the magnificent beast is two folds. The first being feeding the insatiable hunger of especially the Chinese in supplying tiger body parts for so called medicinal purpose. They are supposed to produce medicinal products out of the tigers.

The second part is many a degenerated souls put up a cowardly act of putting on tiger skin adorned garments to pump up their ego. In India many tigers have been poached to satisfy the Tibetans who wear them as traditional dresses. Recently His holiness the Dalai Lama has issued a decree against it. You may be shocked to know that recently in India one national tiger reserve (Sireska) was found to be devoid of tigers as all had been poached. To cut short at this rate of tiger culling our next generation may not be able to look at tigers in real life but in photos only. As some one said the tiger is hemorrhaging, unless we get up & do something positive about it it may be gone for ever.

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They are only being killed illegally, Tigers are a protected species, and it is illegal to import any part of them into the UK, however, we in the UK have no say in what goes on in other countries, the ban is world wide and introduced by the UN but there are many curative properties attributed, but not correctly, to products from Tigers and other strong animals such as Lion and Bear. Many primitive cultures, and others not so primitive, believe that eating part of a tiger would mean the person absorbs some of its strength and courage.

Some people feel the fur is an exotic type of clothing. Or a fancy rug. What they don't realize is that they wouldn't be very happy if some animal used a person's skin in the same way (sorry if that's a bit graphic). This makes me especially sad, because I work with tigers, and they're my favorite animal.

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Vitamin C and its function

Vitamin C and its function: Vitamin C plays an effective role in the protection against immune system insufficiencies, prenatal health problems, heart disease, skin wrinkling and eye disease...

Why Do We Need Vitamin C?

There are several advantages of vitamins C and some of them are as follows:

Vitamin C plays an effective role in the protection against immune system insufficiencies, prenatal health problems, heart disease, skin wrinkling and eye disease.

Vitamin C benefits in arrangement as well as reparation of red blood cells, tissues and bones.

It also supports gum to stay fit and build up your blood vessels, and reducing tight spots.

Vitamin C helps in wound healing, enhance the immune system, and keep infections away from the body.

It is also responsible for the absorption of iron from the different food sources.

What if I take high dose of Vitamin C

On the other hand, high doses of these can result into;

Nausea.

gastritis

diarrhoea

Symptoms of vitamin C Deficiency

• Easy bruising. Nosebleeds.
• Splitting hair.
• Poor healing of wounds.
• Dry skin, tiredness and weakness.
• Spontaneous bleeding in gums.
• Tooth loss and weight loss.
• Muscle and joint pains.
• Problems fighting infections.
• Swelling and discolouration of the gums
• Spots that look like tiny, red-blue bruises on the skin.

If these signs are observed, then it is very necessary to involve brightly coloured fruits as well as vegetables that are rich in vitamin C in your diet.

One should include minimum required vitamin C in their diet. Always make sure you are not taking excess of vitamin C, it can be harmful.

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Why are giraffes so tall?

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Around 15 million years ago, antelope-like animals were roaming the dry grasslands of Africa. There was nothing very special about them, but some of their necks were a bit long.

Within a mere 6 million years, they had evolved into animals that looked like modern giraffes, though the modern species only turned up around 1 million years ago. The tallest living land animal, a giraffe stands between 4.5 and 5 metres tall – and almost half that height is neck.

Most people assume that giraffes’ long necks evolved to help them feed. If you have a long neck, runs the argument, you can eat leaves on tall trees that your rivals can’t reach. But there is another possibility. The prodigious necks may have little to do with food, and everything to do with sex.

The evidence supporting the high-feeding theory is surprisingly weak. Giraffes in South Africa do spend a lot of time browsing for food high up in trees, but elsewhere in Africa they don’t seem to bother, even when food is scarce.

Girls like them long

Giraffes’ necks are long, but there have been longer ones. Sauropod dinosaurs trump them easily: the dinosaur Mamenchisaurus, for instance, had a neck over 9 metres long, four times the longest of giraffe necks.

Long necks come at a cost. Because a giraffe’s brain is around 2 metres above its heart, the heart has to be big and powerful. In fact, for the blood to reach the brain it has to be pumped at the highest pressure of any animal. So there must be a big payback to keep giraffes’ necks so long.

The latest theory – and it’s a surprise this hasn’t come up before, given biologists’ fixation with it – is that the long necks are the result of sexual selection: that is, they evolved in males as a way of competing for females.

Male giraffes fight for females by “necking”. They stand side by side and swing the backs of their heads into each others’ ribs and legs. To help with this, their skulls are unusually thick and they have horn-like growths called ossicones on the tops of their heads. Their heads, in short, are battering rams, and are quite capable of breaking their opponents’ bones.

Having a long and powerful neck would be an advantage in these duels, and it’s been found that males with long necks tend to win, and also that females prefer them.

The “necks for sex” idea also helps explain why giraffes have extended their necks so much more than their legs. If giraffes evolved to reach higher branches, we might expect their legs to have lengthened as fast as their necks, but they haven’t.

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Neck and neck

The problem for the sex idea is that it implies that female giraffes shouldn’t have long necks, and they plainly do. Sexual selection often drives males to develop spectacular attributes – think peacocks’ tails or the feathers of birds of paradise – to impress females, but the females remain relatively dowdy.

A study last year by Graham Mitchell of the University of Pretoria in South Africa and colleagues apparently delivered a knock-down blow to the “necks for sex” theory. Mitchell’s team showed that, in Zimbabwe at least, males and females had necks that were almost exactly the same length, and that if anything the females’ necks were longer. This led many people to write off the whole sex idea.

However, Rob Simmons and Res Altwegg of the University of Cape Town, also in South Africa, have taken a second look at Mitchell’s results and are not convinced. They say the figures do show that males have proportionally longer necks, and that “Mitchell et al. appear to have misinterpreted this result”.

They point to a study in Namibia which found that males consistently had heavier necks than females with the same body mass, and that only the males’ necks kept growing throughout their lives. Males’ heads were also heavier than females’, which is what you would expect if they were being selected for their ability to fight.

Simmons and Altwegg suggest that giraffes’ necks may have begun growing as a way of eating hard-to-reach food, but that they were then “hijacked” for mating purposes. Once the necks had reached a certain length, males could use them for necking and clubbing – and at that point sexual selection took over, driving the necks to their current extreme lengths.

Peacocks and birds of paradise aside, there are many birds of which the male seems to have developed colourful plumage as a result of sexual selection, but the females are also brightly coloured. Perhaps the sexual selection explanation for long necks in giraffes isn’t dead after all.

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Vitamin C helps reduce anxiety among diabetics

It's the fact that vitamin c helps reduce anxiety among diabetics. Let's see how

But this effect upon moods has also been found among diabetics, as another study found that the antioxidant vitamin C can significantly reduce stress and anxiety among type 2 diabetic patients.

The research divided 45 diabetes mellitus patients into three groups. For six weeks, they gave one group 1,000 milligrams per day of vitamin C, and another 400 IU per day of vitamin E. They gave the third group a placebo. The researchers used a 21-question test called the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale before and after the treatment period.

After the six weeks, those patients taking the vitamin C experienced a significant reduction in anxiety levels. The other two groups experienced no difference in anxiety.

Yes, patients with diabetes mellitus often suffer from anxiety, depression and stress. This was theorized as diabetes producing greater oxidative stress within the cells and tissues, which impacts brain cells and the production of mood neurotransmitters.

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Tigers can climb trees

Don't you know why and when do tigers climb trees? Just keep reading to know more about this tigers facts

Although able to climb trees, tigers rarely climb trees; they can easily reach 500 pounds, which is far too heavy for efficient climbing. Tiger cubs have been seen going up and down trees for fun, but they do so less as they grow larger. 

Mostly, tigers avoid climbing trees because they don't always know how to get down, which leads to very awkward situations.

Cubs:

Tiger cubs willingly climb trees for about the first sixteen months of life and young tigers have been sighted following langur monkeys up into the trees in an effort to secure a feed. But after this age their increasing weight makes both ascent and descent difficult, and few tree branches have the needed strength to hold their weight.

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Adults:

Adults seldom climb, but are quite capable of doing so; they may do this if being chased by dogs or when after prey. There have been occasions of men climbing trees to escape an attacking tiger, only to be killed when the tiger followed them up. 

This does not mean tigers are willing or efficient climbers. On the contrary, they are not. The white Bengal and Amur tigers shown here are doing something quite unusual for tigers of their age.

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Dragons have been discovered in our times

Whether or not dragons exist, they have been discovered in our times. Keep reading for more amazing animal facts about dragons:

This species has many features similar to the legendary dragons we’ve heard about. It is capable of gliding flight, it is carnivorous being a reptile and it lays eggs. The recorded maximum length of this species is around 23 cm, now that’s a bit low for dragons right?

Well perhaps there are some secrets still left to be discovered, like may be it was evolution or even magic that got all dragons to shrink !

No this species doesn’t breath fire either but then again it might be choosing not to ? or perhaps the decrease in size has rendered it incapable of fire, probably due to decreased intelligence. The possibilities are endless.

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Animal question: Can cockroaches fly?

Can you answer animal facts question: Can cockroaches fly?

To answer your question simply, yes.

The very thought of cockroaches can send shivers down your spine. These pesky creatures are synonymous with dirt and filth, and are also known to spread diseases such as salmonella, whilst also triggering asthma.

There are around 4,500 species of cockroaches in the world, but only 30 are considered pests. But can these crawling insects fly?

Can cockroaches fly?

One thing that might not have crossed your mind (or maybe it has) is if cockroaches can fly. Well you may be shocked to find out that they can, in fact, fly.

Do all cockroaches fly?

Although a handful of cockroach species have wings, the majority of them aren’t good flyers, or can’t fly at all. On the other hand, some are strong, capable fliers whilst others just glide from one spot to another, and only for a short period of time.

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