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    The extinct animal i chose was the sabre tooth tiger, because i think it was the most interesting to me. Often called Sabre-toothed Tigers or Sabre-toothed Lions they where extinct 55 million to 11,700 years ago. Sabre-tooth Cats were carnivores named for the elongated blade like canine teeth in their upper jaw, which in some species were up to 50cm long. Quite bear-like in build, they were believed to be excellent hunters and hunted animals such as sloths and mammoths. These felines could open…

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    experience extinction from sickness. However, some animals are unfortunate enough to be hunted to extinction by humans. These 10 animals no longer exist thanks to us, the humans. Here, we remember them below. Number Ten: Tasmanian Tiger. Extinct since 1936, the Tasmanian tiger was a threat to farmers because it would hunt their sheep, so to fight it, farmers began hunting it. It was trapped and poisoned for government bounties and eventually went extinct because of this. Number Nine: Woolly…

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    The tiger will never lie down with the lamb. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. In life, you can either be a monster, or a man; and the monster always wins. To be a man is to be the lamb, innocent and dictated. To be a monster is to be the tiger, running freely and being independent. In the Tiger’s Bride, Beauty is a lamb, but she must learn to run with the tiger. In the tiger’s bride, beauty starts as an innocent girl who is consumed with pleasing her father and doing whatever…

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    Imagine being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger that’s starving of hunger and having to figure out a way not to get eaten by it. Or having to train a really dangerous tiger knowing that it might attack because it’s hungry. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, describes one full story of a kid who’s lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and a kid whose family passed away when they were on a boat on their way to Canada for better job opportunities. The story with…

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    A very long time ago, a great tiger named Jussuf was the biggest tiger of them all. Jussuf is as big as a fifty different men combined. He ate herds of animals as just as a snack. Everything feared him even his own family. In return, he feared nothing at all. I even heard such stories of him that he’s the reason the dinosaur no longer roam the earth. His mighty roar could be heard around the world. He lived in a giant cave atop a mountain. Before this time there was no wind or…

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    Why Are Ligers So Rare

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    Ligers are very rare and so are tigons. The difference between the two are ligons are made by a male lion and a female tiger and a tigon is made by a female lion and a male tiger. “Ligers, like tigons – cubs born to a lioness and a male tiger”. (Panina) The reasons ligers are so rare is because they have to be bred in captivity. Ligers are so rare that there are only around 20 in the world. I do not think this is a good idea to cross breed animals because most places where they are bred by…

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    connection between the two different stories. The hyena which represented the crazy cook killed the injured zebra who was actually the Chinese sailor and the motherly orangutan who was Pi’s own mother. The Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, was in fact Pi himself. In fact, was Pi’s struggle with the tiger actually an internal struggle he had to face alone? There was a break, a deep silence that filled the interrogation room. Pi ended his second story with “‘Is that better? Are there any parts…

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    Wild animals have been endangered since the loss of the dinosaurs millions of years ago. When there are no more animals of a particular species alive, that specie is called extinction. Moreover, animal such as Florida manatees, leopard, tigers, rhino, whales, and other animal's life are threatened on a daily basis. In the past millions of years' natural cause has had provoked a numerous species disappear from the planet, but lately human hunting activities and the black market are the most…

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    the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (159). Saraswathi’s environment changed as she was forced to become a Tiger soldier. As Saraswathi loses her parents, she no longer has a role model to look up to. Being young and impressionable, she becomes prone to many different influences—including negative ones. Her life also changed when she accepted the leader of the Tigers as her new role mode. Saraswathi explains, “I learn about our Leader. About how he has devoted his life…

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    ability to adapt becomes so much more important when their survival is put on the line. Pi loses some of his compassion. He adapts to become more focused on survival than other moral values that he previously held. He also realizes that the Bengal Tiger in his lifeboat and himself need to learn to coexist as peacefully as possible. To do so, Pi adopts some animal characteristics such as marking his territory: “I splashed my urine on the tarpaulin and over the locker lid to stake my claim” (172).…

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