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...same reasons that virtually all the world's big cats--tigers, cheetahs, snow leopards, jaguars and, to a lesser degree, cougars--are in trouble, reasons that have to do with the very nature of being a top cat in a world dominated by the top primate. Moreover, the reasons point to the limits--and ultimate failure--of the traditional strategy for safeguarding big cats: protecting them in wildlife reserves...
Around the world, the incidence of big-cat attacks on people is low compared with other natural perils. In India, tigers kill 30 to 40 people annually, while 20,000 Indians die each year from snakebites. Jaguars, cheetahs, snow leopards and clouded leopards have never been known to attack humans. In the U.S., 17 people have died from mountain lion attacks over the past 100 years; many more are killed by lightning in a single year. This year, however, California has had three attacks by mountain lions on humans--one fatal. All involved hikers or bikers in cougar country; their...
...mountains of Ladakh in Northern India, pashmina-goat herders keep their animals outside at night in the cold so that they develop the soft, thick wool prized around the world. But doing so makes them prime targets for snow leopards, which are particularly hated by the herders because of their tendency toward mass slaughter. "When snow leopards get into a pen, their predatory instincts are repeatedly triggered, and they go on a killing frenzy," says Rodney Jackson of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. "Killing 20 or more animals at a time is not uncommon. One hundred and seven sheep...
...oddball humor. She reflects on the Norwegian climate, joking that her family "ran around in the snow with sandals on." She pillories cross-cultural dating, dispensing sardonic tips on "how to pick up a Pakistani chick," and addresses her girlhood fear that the light mustache that appeared on her upper lip would scare off potential suitors. She was reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten...
With global warming, we have no more snow. With minimum wage laws, great grandpa’s work habits can only be emulated by workers in Cambodia. And with the onset of the online revolution, you can get the news from tomorrow’s newspaper today. (Which, by the way, would be a great premise for a TV show...