Bangladesh suspends officials over tiger smuggling Nine officials have been suspended after the finding of Bengal tiger cubs at a house in Dhaka. Despite strict wildlife-protection laws, poaching remains rampant in Bangladesh. Bangladesh said on Monday that nine forest officials had been suspended for “gross negligence” after three Bengal tiger cubs were found in…
POWELL, Ohio — Two Amur tiger cubs were born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on June 28 and 29, 2012. The first arrived at 10:41 p.m. and the second about four hours later. The newborn cubs, weighing just two to three pounds at birth, were initially monitored by the animal care team using a…
Marwan Alhammadi’s 15-minute film “Cats” begins with an Emirati taking out a cage with a lion cub from his car at his sprawling villa. The owner explains that his family was initially shocked but later accepted their pet. “I consider him my son,” the man adds in the film screened at the Fifth Gulf Film…
Louis Theroux returns to our screens this evening with a series about the autistic young and demented old. Here’s a reminder of his stranger encounters… When Sir Jimmy Savile died, the first thing that came to mind was not Top of the Pops or Jim’ll Fix It – no, it was Louis Theroux’s disconcerting documentary, When Louis…
A rare tiger cub made his public debut today at Point Defiance Zoo. The three-week old Sumatran tiger weighs just 8 pounds. He had to be taken away from his mom, because she wasn’t producing enough milk, and the cub was losing weight. Zookeepers started bottle feeding the little guy, and now…