Thread: Leaping Tiger

From the Smithsonian Zoo yesterday (also posted in the Kitty thread). More info on my blog.

f2200704 by ...olli..., on Flickr

great energy in this shot! In a world filled with beautiful and impressive plants and animals, tigers are surely among the most beautiful and impressive!

Looking at the photo again, you can see how the shoulders / upper front legs are not a whole lot thinner than the animal's waist (if you disregard the loose skin on the belly)... hard to imagine how massively powerful these animals are!

Originally Posted by bartjeej

tigers are surely among the most beautiful and impressive!

Agree entirely. Beautiful, magnificent animals. There are usually two out in the big cats area at the zoo. One is a slimmer, sleeker animal and this one is notably more powerful and heavy set. I assume the smaller is the female and this one is the male.

Great action shot olli. Tigers are seriously endangered in the wild and I agree they are magnificent.

^ yeah, there're only 3000 to 4000 left... I think most people don't realise how close we are to a world without wild tigers, especially because they live in a highly fragmented range and often can't find (unrelated) partners to reproduce...

Great sense of movement and energy in this image.