Today i was welcomed by the news of the recent research which brighten up my day... i know i might sounded bias, but i really Loves tigers than Lions.. so when tigers beat lions in something... im very happy... although tigers and lions never co-exist in the wild.... :D

Source: Wired.co.uk

Why the tiger, not the lion, is king of the jungle
Katie Scott
14 September 2009

Lions may face a challenge to the species' long reign as king of the jungle, after scientists from Oxford University found that tigers have the bigger brains.

By measuring the skull size and volume of a large sample of tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars, they found that the tiger has a bigger brain than its big-cat cousins.

"When we compare the two biggest species, on average the lion has a bigger skull than the tiger based on the greatest length of the skull," said Dr Nobby Yamaguchi, of Oxford�s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.

"However, the tiger has bigger cranial volume than the lion. It is truly amazing that tiny female Balinese tiger skulls have cranial volumes as large as those of huge male southern African lion skulls."

The tiger�s brain is, on average, 16 per cent larger than the lions.

It had previously been assumed that social species such as lions would have larger brains than solitary species like tigers, to cope with the demands of a complex social hierarchy, according to Science Daily.

Yamaguchi said: "Our results strongly suggest that there is no detectable positive relationship between relative brain size and sociality amongst these four big cat species, which shared a common ancestor around 3.7 million years ago."

The researchers are now planning to investigate what caused the variation in brain size among big cats.

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It been a hot story recently when video were put on to Youtube of A Famosa Resort worker abusing the tiger to take pictures together with the visitors!

This is a horrible act practice by them, look at the video, look at the tiger, it look so helpless, harmless and "dead"!! It have no strength to stay focus, and the General Manager of A Famosa Resort Allan Chee denied the abuse allegation.

Fine they can denied of drugging the animals, but they cannot denied how the worker treated the tiger. Look what had they done, pinch the tiger's nose, pull the head up when it is shown that the tiger needed the rest it deserve!, pull the mouth .... OMG... and kick my tigers on the face!!!!!! how can they treat my tigers like that! *HORRIFIED*!

The recorder girl was telling them to stop the photography session and said the tiger needed the rest, and the worker said, if no picture taken what do the tiger eat. And the girl said we pay the ticket!!!!

I hated zoo, i seriously am, but if i don't visit zoo, and no one do, the tigers and other animal will be starve... i bet the zoo owners r using this as a soft spot to make us visit! *MAD*

This weekend, as quoted from The Monkey King, there will have a "Public Awareness Campaign�� day-trip to A ��Famosa Resort on 29 May 2010 at 10:30am to advocate better treatment for wildlife living in captivity."

Check this out...
The Page of the Public Awareness Campaign
The Event

Thank u for reading~

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