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Published: 17.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Tigers', 1.
  • Essays 'Tigers', 2.
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Tigers: The Silent Assassins
Armed with razor like teeth and retractile claws in addition to their keen senses, tigers are silent assassins on top of the food chain. The magnificent striped panthera tigris, originally from Eastern Asia, once ranged an enormous span of the earth's surface. Over the past century, it is estimated that the tigers habitat and numbers have been depleted by up to 95%. Having been greatly limited as a result of many factors, mainly human impacts, the tiger has been driven out from over 30 countries that it originally occupied. …

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