Comments on: Anjana The Chimpanzee’s Bond With Two White Tigers

By: Two white | Allscrappedup

Two white | Allscrappedup — Mon, 30 May 2011 02:16:48 +0000

[...] Anjana The Chimpanzee’s Bond With Two White Tigers « PrimatologySimilar to the latter story, a new one has emerged of a chimpanzee named Anjana ‘adopting’ two white tiger cubs named Mitra and Shiva, over at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina. [...]

By: Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:17:08 +0000

Terran – A breeding programme seeks to maintain species and subspecies of animals long term by selective choice of proper unrelated or distant related mates. This involves cooperation of many zoos.
The White Tigers do NOT fit in here at all. They are the result of crossing brother to sister and mother to son time and again just to get white animals. It is NOT natural and as may be expected by such close breedings many deformed animals are born and so destroyed. Breeding and Breeding Programmes are two different things.
True enough White BENGAL Tigers have occurred in the wild in the dim and distant past and may do so again. I have no problem with that in nature. The captive white tiger population have been crossed with AMUR tigers. This to deliberately create bigger animals. A subspecific cross which would NEVER meet in the wild.
The captive white tiger population has nothing to do with conservation. It is purely exploitative commercial gain.
Learn more here:
http://hubpages.com/_13rz0ikcd0g1v/hub/White-Tiger-Breeding-is-Not-Conservation

By: Terran

Terran — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:30:06 +0000

Peter – “not in any breeding programme” and “aberrations of nature”? What on earth are you talking about? White tigers do occur in nature (albeit rarely), and they breed in captivity easily enough that they are quite common now.

By: Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:36:19 +0000

T.I.G.E.R.S. always take such brilliant photos. They are masters of publicity and for that they impress me BUT they do zero for conservation or for animals in general… in spite of what their website says.
This is a juvenile chimp which should be with its mother and not doing staged photos with tigers which should also be with their mother. The tigers are ‘white’ and therefore not in any breeding programme, because there isn’t one for aberrations of nature. Is the chimp in a studbook anywhere? I doubt it. Doc Antle is a very clever man but he is in it for the money.

By: Seer

Seer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:48:47 +0000

For better or worse, human expansionism will continue, and these animals will continue to be misplaced, endangered, and outright killed.

The best way to prevent this is by educated us ignorant humans. That is what zoos, and projects like this do, educate.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:42:36 +0000

“T.I.G.E.RS USES ANIMALS AND MAKES MONEY OFF OF THEM. DONT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, INVESTIGATE THEM OUT. THEY ARE IN THE USA.”

Zoo’s do the same thing, Why arn’t you preaching about them?? These animals are happy, without a mother those cubs would not have survived in the wild

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:42:56 +0000

They’re trying to preserve endangered species, and need funds to make their feeding and care possible…so what if they charge you for a photo? You can always choose not to have one taken, or to simply make an earmarked donation if you care so much. As for letting Anjana care for babies – notice that they’re letting her do that, not forcing her, simply because it seems to give her so much satisfaction and purpose – again, what’s the problem? We praise people who do that.

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:24:53 +0000

It takes money to care for all of these animals. If their website is truthful, they also fund other things with proceeds. I can’t completely agree this constitutes “exploitation”. What is really important is the animals’ health and well-being.

By: phil bartlett

phil bartlett — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:48:55 +0000

Is there a book published about Anjana?

By: Sue May

Sue May — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:44:55 +0000

I just love seeing photos of Anjana and her friends, quite inspiring and very touching.