Nature, like the human world, has rules in terms of adaptations. One of them is the "Cost of Carnivory Rule" which says when a predator is 46 lbs in weight it can no longer live off of small prey alone, it has to hunt big prey hence why you don't see tigers being specialist hare hunters or spotted hyenas only eating meerkats. This got me thinking about my favorite wild canid, the dhole because the maximum weight for a dhole is 44 lbs and averages about 36 lbs, so they aren't quite at the weight

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Imagine that you wake up from sleeping in and not caring what your boss says and you find yourself in a patchwork of woodlands and grasslands, and the first animals you see are wildebeest and impala, you think to yourself "Okay I'm in Africa wait......how did I even get here!?". You hear rumbling sounds behind you, and when you turn around you see elephants walking past you, but these are not elephants you're familiar with. The elephants you see have tusks under their jaws and now you think to

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The massive canine teeth of sabertooths can bring out awe and admiration, in other's curiosity, or others might joke about them being good can-openers. But just how did sabertooths use their mouth swords when hunting? To help answer this, we can look at the anatomy of sabertooth skeletons which can give us clues as to how these predators would have killed big animals.

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When you hear the word sabertooth, the first thing that comes up in the mind is an image of a big cat with a short tail and huge canines hunting big animals like bison and even mammoths. The sabertooth species that most people think of is Smilodon fatalis, the most famous of all sabertooths by far. So I figured I would start with this animal with my Sabertooth blog series.

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I swear if red wolves go extinct in the wild for the second time, I'm gonna go crazy. This is an absolute joke!

Environmentalists want to know how the critically endangered red wolf population in Eastern North Carolina is doing, but federal officials won’t release documents about the conservation efforts, according to a new lawsuit.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/how-laos-lost-its-tigers/

How Laos lost its tigers

by Jeremy Hance on 28 October 2019

• A new camera trap study finds that tigers vanished from Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area by 2014, their last stand in Laos.

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Before anyone says anything about my most recent tiger blog, I found this from another article on the topic.

The investigation found India's tiger population was “undoubtedly on the rebound thanks to better protection and monitoring over the last 15 years”. Yet it warned the analysis “puts a question mark on the counting process”.

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Found this, man this was unexpected.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/us/arkansas-deer-death-trnd/index.html

A hunter was gored by the deer he thought he shot and killed

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed, CNN
Updated 3:27 PM ET, Thu October 24, 2019

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Investigation Alleges 2015 Survey Could Have Overestimated Tiger Count by 16%

An investigation by the Indian Express has uncovered multiple distortions in the counting process.

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My friends, I have some very good news to report to you all. India's tiger population has gone up. Here's an article on the subject.

India's tiger numbers growing

India's wild tiger population rises to nearly 3,000 – a drastic increase despite human conflict

BY CAITLIN O'KANE

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