Where do most tigers live?
In the United States it turns out. There are 4,000 tigers residing in captivity in Texas alone, where private ownership of tigers is legal. The number of tigers left in the wild is perhaps no more than 5,100-7,500.
A tiger cub costs about $1,000 while the more exotic blue-eyed white tiger costs $15,000.
That is from The Book of General Ignorance, an interesting compilation of not so well known facts.
I learned also that chamelons do not change color to fit their background (the changes are determined by their emotional states), moths are disoriented by flames rather than attracted to them, and (possibly) America was named after Richard Amerike rather than Amerigo Vespucci; I still haven’t gotten to the bottom of that one. Amerike, a wealthy merchant, helped finance Cabot’s voyage, and asked that any discovered lands be named after him.
A note so well non fact:
Emperor Akbar the Great was illiterate.
A tiger is cheaper than a decent sofa, not to mention a decent horse or lama? $1,000 for an individual on one of the most impressive endangered species seems far too cheap.
I can only imagine a price this low if there is a substantial likelihood that the tiger will be take away by wildlife authorities or if it a pro forma price between zoos.
It’s not uncommon for certain dogs to cost over $1,000, so it does strike me as an extremely low price. That said, the demand might be limited. While it sounds cool, how many people really want to own a tiger? The maintanence costs must be extremely high as well.
good point.
I looked at the book’s amazon summary; I’m tempted to buy it just out of curiosity over how they figured out that only 5 of 100,000 paper clips are used to clip papers.
My wife once worked as a nurse in the ICU of a hospital in Lubbock, TX. This guy that owned and trained Bengal Tigers was torn up pretty badly by one of them, and ended up in the ICU, where he eventually died. One nice outcome of this tragedy was that another of the nurses in the ICU ended up in a relationship with one of the paramedics that brought him in, and they ended up getting married.
I beleive that maths fly toward light, a good heuristic in a world without
artificial lights, but not a minimax strategy in today’s world.
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