The Common Room: One Little, Two Little, Three Little Tigers...

re: "Actually, no one really has any idea how many tigers still exist in the wild, and if you ever hear any precise numbers generated, you should be very suspicious. / Tigers are, The Equuschick is told in her lovely book How the Tiger Lost Its Stripes: An Exploration into the Endangerment of a Species, essentially large feral cats who blend in excellently with the vegetation of their habitat, are strictly solitary, extremely shy of being sighted in the wild, and are in fact quite good at not being sighted at all if it doesn't please them and it usually doesn't. If you're looking to see one, you probably won't..."...