Top 5 National Parks for Tiger Safari India as of June 2021. As per the Tiger census conducted in India in 2018-2019, India had 2997 wild tigers residing in the 20 states in 52 Tiger reserves. This is approx. 75% of the world wild tiger population. Out of these 52 tiger reserves, 15 are very popular because of good Tiger sightings. This does not mean that there are no Tiger sightings in the other parks.


Suggestion of the park can also depend on your other interests. In case your focus is, only tigers while on a Tiger Safari in India tour, then the national park we recommend will be different. But if you wish to see species other than the tiger, then the choice of parks will change again. Therefore, it is important for us to know what you want from a tiger safari India tour. It is our constant endeavour is to supersede your expectations by delivering the best services when it comes to your tiger safari in India.

This thread is about the Giant cheetah-Acinonyx Pardinensis.

Hello everyone again, I have this pendant for many years (it is vintage), I think it is from the age of the British Raj in India, does anyone know what animal it can be?

Thanks !!

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The side one its a adult red fox for comparison

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This thread is dedicated to posting compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot aka Sasquatch. After many years of watching countless Bigfoot documentaries, hearing hundreds of very credible eye-witness accounts and testimonies from around the world, seeing compelling DNA evidence ( Numerous hair samples ), vocalizations and hundreds of legit, scientifically verified Bigfoot footprint casts and tracks, I'm 100% certain, without a doubt, that Bigfoot exists.

Note, no one has ever been able to debunk the 1967 Patterson/Gimlin footage, despite being in 2021 with all this advanced technology. All the people who claimed to have been the creature in the Patterson film, could never produce any shred of tangible evidence to prove their claims. Too much inconsistencies, contradictions and lies in their stories.

Anyone who has an open mind and interest in this topic, then I strongly suggest you watch the new Bigfoot documentary called "Expedition Bigfoot" ( 2 seasons, 3rd season maybe coming ), where the investigators and researchers find plenty of authentic and compelling evidence that strongly suggests that these creatures exist. From thermal footage of Bigfoot, huge footprints, vocalizations, tree structures etc...

Here's an article on some of the evidence the Expedition Bigfoot team found:

https://press.discoveryplus.com/paranorm...a-results/

I am interested in the shoulder height to body length ratio of male tigers.

Because we have to do this with pictures, it won't be perfect. But if we can compare multiple pictures, then we can take the average and that should be pretty close to the true ratio.

I will start:




For this particular picture of Bamera, I got a height to length ratio of:

56.3218391%

This thread is dedicated to all the men & women, that are/were leading the charge to protect the planet.

Yangchuanosaurus is an extinct genus of carnivorous metriacanthosaurid allosauroid that lived in China from the Middle to Late Jurassic periods (Bathonian to Oxfordian, about 168 to 157 mya), and was similar in size and appearance to its more famous relative, Allosaurus. Yangchuanosaurus hails from the rocks of the Upper Shaximiao Formation. This theropod was named after the area in which was discovered, Yongchuan, in China. 
The subadult type specimen of Y. shangyouensis had a skull length of 78 cm, a femur length of 85 cm, and an estimated total length of 8.6 meters. The paratype was even larger, with an estimated skull length of 111 cm, a femur length of 95 cm, an estimated length of 10.2 meters, and an estimated weight of 2500 kg. A referred femur with a length of 120 cm suggests larger sizes still, possibly up to 12.9 meters and 5000 kg. This is similar in size to modern rhinos and elephants and puts Yangchuanosaurus among the largest known theropods of the Jurassic.
The skull of Yangchuanosaurus was large, deep, and broad, housing numerous sharp and serrated teeth. The neural spines of the torso were moderately tall, perhaps serving as muscle attachments. The hindlimbs were short and stout, possibly related to locomotion in forests.
Yangchuanosaurus probably fed on the contemporary sauropods Mamenchisaurus and Omeisaurus as well as the stegosaurs Chialingosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus. Being the largest known carnivorous animal from the rock formations it was found, it may have been the apex predator.

I think this thread is much needed as theres many new and some older lions and coalitions in Kruger which are less known and seen, so its hard to ID them and distinguish them when they are spotted.

I imagen this thread to work like this:

- Post a name of a coalition or lion and then under that post a pictures of them, pictures which will be posted should be the best ones on which we can see lions face, whiskers, or some easily recognizable spotts (ear scars, body scars, patches etc). 

- if theres some unknown males to you, post it first under "Who they are? " thread, so you can see if some members maybe know who they are, and then post it here, so we dont spam here. 

- if nobody doesnt know that unknown lion/coalition in  "who they are? thread, just post it here and name them "unknown" and possibly location where they are spotted, so we have them for future sightings

- i think this thread doesnt need to be for discussion (obiviously if somebody post something wrong, correct him), yet mainly for ID's, as we have many threads for discussion already 

- also no need to post here famous lions like Nhenha, Tinyo, Mohawk etc., as they are well known already for everyone. 

- ID's of already gone lions and coalitions are also welcome 

Hope it works well.

A thread dedicated to modern weights and measurements of cheetahs!

I came across some articles which say Neanderthals and their predecessors had both x and Y chromosomes. I feel in one way they may be hermaphrodites. Modern humans and Neanderthals had 99.7% similarities. What distinguishes them is presence of both x and Y chromosome and a bigger brain in Neanderthals. Modern Humans had only either of these two. Sexual dimorphism may have started only after the first human was created. It may be only the latest phenomenon IMO. What you say guys?