Thursday, May 31, 2007

ODIN, THE WHITE TIGER, RULEZ

AWESOME!!!

And his name is "ODIN" - double Awesome!
"Odin was hand-raised at the zoo. And after he was weaned, his British trainer Lee Munro discovered his remarkable skill: when a lump of meat was thrown into a pool of water, Odin would happily dive in after it. Odin can now be observed in action, at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Zoo in Vallejo, near San Francisco, in a large pool with glass walls has been constructed at the zoo to allow visitors to watch him gliding through the water with all the grace of a polar bear.... A century ago there were about 100,000 tigers in the wild. Now there are just 2,500 adults, with the Bengal variety almost extinct. Within our lifetimes, zoos might be the only places left to see these animals alive."

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*thanks, HH!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's good to see the nictitating membrane at work......(wish we had them)awesome pics JIM.

-ps.
Tigers RULE! (that's why I own cats.....)

Anonymous said...

dang! we were just in Vallejo last month!

the only thing the RULZ more than Odin tiger is an AUBURN TIGER!!!

(that was just for you, jimmy)

Jim said...

otter, ya gotta get a swimming white tiger for the acquarium!!!!

Anonymous said...

aquarium...BAH! i want one at the house!