{"id":47469,"date":"2013-08-30T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=47469"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:33:57","slug":"featured-video-how-tigers-could-save-human-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/featured-video-how-tigers-could-save-human-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured video: how tigers could save human civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the video below, John Vaillant, author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307389049\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307389049&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=focusingonwildlife-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival<\/a>, tells an audience at TEDxYYC about the similarities between tigers and human beings. Given these similarities\u2014big mammals, apex predator, highly adaptable, intelligent, and stunningly &#8220;superior&#8221;\u2014John Vaillant asks an illuminating question: what can we learn from the tiger? It turns out learning from tigers could help conserve the human race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tigers manage to be superior without being separate,&#8221; Vaillant says.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6J7_nZi9LQ\" height=\"345\" width=\"613\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" style=\"max-width: 600px; width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mongabay-images\/13\/0829.800px-P.t.altaica_Tomak_Male.600.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) at the Leipzig Zoo. The Amur tiger, or Siberian tiger, is currently listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List with around 450 left in the wild. Photo by: Appaloosa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2013\/0829-hance-tigers-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article <\/a>was written for Mongabay.com and re-posted on Focusing on Wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video below, John Vaillant, author of the The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, tells an audience at TEDxYYC about the similarities between tigers and human beings. Given these similarities\u2014big mammals, apex predator, highly adaptable, intelligent, and stunningly &#8220;superior&#8221;\u2014John Vaillant asks an illuminating question: what can we learn from the tiger? 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