Tigers, Anyone? (Excellent Read/Video on Sunderbans)

PeakXV

...... if your skin was a little thicker that alleged 'knife' wouldn't hurt so much!!!!!

I'm certain now that you've totally misconstrued the raison d'être of this thread.

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Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

tacita

yes, i genuinely believe that excellent, substantive articles such as the one linked in the OP could make a difference.

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dzibead

Supercilious? Look in the mirror.

The kind of haughty disdain you displayed toward the article referred to in the OP and, by implication, your disdain for the member who posted it, will only serve to discourage people who might not otherwise be aware of the tigers' plight from taking an interest and trying to learn (and do) more.

Even if the article doesn't meet your exacting, know-it-all standards, it could make a difference by catching the attention of someone who otherwise would not have been aware of the situation and who might be inspired to become actively involved in tiger conservation issues. The New Yorker is a popular magazine. It's not a scientific or political policy journal so it's ridiculous to hold it to the standards applicable to such publications. But because it is a popular, non-specialist magazine, it reaches a wide audience and has the potential for creating broad-based awareness about the subjects of its articles. About 20 years ago, I read a brilliant, eye-opening, emotionally affecting article about bats that led me to become involved in bat conservation. One of the world's leading bat specialists, Merlin Tuttle, credited the article with significantly raising the general level of awareness of the ecological importance of bats, to the point where membership in Bat Conservation International shot up and numerous bat colonies around the world that would otherwise have been destroyed were saved and many governmental entities enacted protective legislation (which has worked). For all you know, some 14-year-old kid might read that tiger article and go on to become a leading tiger conservationist. So think about that before you shoot off some snotty, dismissive remarks in the future.

And as for your delicate sensibilities being injured by the response to your comments? Ouch! Too bad. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the IM kitchen.

By the way, your own anecdote was fantastic. Why not write it up and publish somewhere other than our insular little website?

Nick-H

Ho! Now I'm going to get upset and join in the fight!

Although why there should be a fight at all beats me, apart from some minor differences of literary opinion and personality clashes.


I doubt that anyone disagrees about the plight of the tigers, so do, please, retract those claws.

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PeakXV

One of the more spine-tingling things in that article is the account of the rather bold habit of the man-eating tiger to inhabit an abandoned or unused dwelling within the town of the peoples he chooses to devour. This trait was mentioned more than once in Jim Corbett's chronicles - where they would be out searching the jungle for the big cat only to learn he/she was living 'much closer'(in one case within an unused bungalow) to town then they cared to believe or infact realized.

<There is a large black cat that has been living in our barn for the last few years - not man-eating - but emphasizes the cat's opportunistic ability for discovering & quickly adapting to unused spaces close to man.>