Gadling

A friend of mine, Li Quan, has been raising tigers in Africa. The first thing you should know is that tigers are not found in Africa. The second thing you should know is that she gave up a cushy career in the fashion industry to become a cat ...

A few months ago I traveled to Harbin, the northernmost large metropolitan in China (close to the Russian border) to do some digging around at the world's largest tiger farm. The resulting 2,500 word story appeared in Nature, but alas, it's behind a ...

Ever been on safari, and wished you could get up close and personal with animals? Normally that'd be too dangerous, but one German performance artists has found a novel solution for keeping himself self while out in the elements. He's protected by a ...

On a nondescript street near downtown Harbin, the Double Mountain Local Products Wholesale Center offers the usual array of kitsch items stripped from the wilderness: deer antlers, pelts and dried starfish. A request for tiger wine, a traditional ...

Read part 1 of this story here. The automated gates chug and clatter open as a jeep, its windows ribbed with steel, noisily announces its arrival in the tiger park. Without the usual gaggle of tourists to impress, the occupants of a neighbouring ...

It's a crying shame that articles like this one even exist. But I suppose that is the globally warmed, extinction-driven reality we live in. How many species are disappearing every year? Every time I hear the answer (the estimate goes as high as ...

There's nothing quite like seeing a wild animal in its natural habitat. It's why people go on safari in South Africa to see lions and elephants, trek through the jungles of Borneo in search of monkeys, and submerge themselves in steel cages off the ...

The Tasmanian Tiger is an elusive beast. The last one in captivity died in the Hobart zoo in 1936, and the tiger is officially extinct. But in Australia, ranchers, hunters and hikers claim every so often that they see one of the ...

Feline fans unite. The newest NPR/Nat Geo radio expeditions feature is up and is about the return of the Siberian Tiger. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Dale Miquelle, who directs the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia program. A pretty ...

In 1936, the last of the Tasmanian Tigers -- wolf-like mammals that were over-hunted by European settlers -- died in a zoo, rendering the species extinct. Or did it? According to German tourists Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen, the answer is no. ...

It was an easy breezy Saturday morn when I set out from my home with a close friend of mine to check out Tampa's Big Cat Rescue. The animal attraction is only a good five miles away from my place and after three plus years of living in the area the ...

There is no doubt that we are fascinated with wildlife. We love to watch diverse and interesting animals, preferably in their natural habitats, and we're often willing to travel to remote places, sometimes at great expense, to see them. If you enjoy ...

While it is still possible to buy tiger wine in China just by asking for it, it will probably not be possible for long, BBC reports. Tiger bone wine has been popular in China for centuries and, recently, it has become popular with tourists trying to ...

Everyone loves going to the zoo (except, of course, the people who don't). It's our way to get up close and personal with a wide variety of beautiful, exotic animals, without any chance of attacks or danger. Well, not so fast. Yesterday, a Siberian ...

There must be something in the water at many of Germany's zoos that cause mothers in captivity to reject their newborn young. First we had Knut, and then Flocke, both polar bear cubs abandoned by their mothers and raised by zookeepers. Now we have a ...