![]() Tigers, though, have moved away from places where there are people. Their stripes make them hard to see in the shadows and in the sort of sunlight that falls on forests and long grasses. In the wild, tigers like to live in different types of forests and woods. They were not exactly totally blue but a sort of blue/grey. It is almost certain that there are no white tigers living in the wild.Īt one time, years ago, we believe that there were some very rare blue tigers. All the white tigers in all of the world’s zoos can be traced back to one white tiger whose name is Mohan. The white tiger is a very popular zoo animal. There are far more tigers in cages in zoos than there are in wild places. Almost 900 years ago, King Henry I of England was one of the first people to keep a tiger in a zoo. The tigers on the warm island of Sumatra are the smallest. Over thousands of years the colder weather made the tigers bigger because it is easier for a large tiger to keep warm in the cold. The tigers in Russia are bigger than the tigers in Asia. Many people believe that all the tigers in China have been killed or have died naturally. ![]() Asia includes countries such as India, Myanmar, Thailand, Sumatra and China. The tiger mainly lives in a part of the world called Asia. People are frightened that one day there will be none left. People still like to kill the tiger to eat bits of it and make medicines from it. Although people who know tigers very well are not sure, they think that nowadays there are only about 3,500 tigers in the whole world that live in wild places. Image credits: Orange tiger by Goneys – White tiger by Anderson Mancini – Blue tiger unknown author.įor hundreds of years people from all parts of the world wanted to show how courageous they were by hunting and shooting the tiger. Her great poem Requiem remembers the pain.Īnd I’m twenty this evening.Essay on the Tiger for Kids. Remaining in St Petersburgh (renamed Leningrad) during the siege in the Second World War, and with her son, and her lover, Nikolai Punin, both sent to labour camps, she came to stand for the voice of an earlier Russia that had neither been silenced nor forgotten. He was shot as a counter-revolutionary in 1921. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, a poet and leader of the Acmeist movement. Born Anna Gorenko, in Odessa, on the Black Sea, she spent most of her life in St. In Anna Akhmatova, Sappho’s individualistic female voice returns again. Teacher – In Memory of Innokenty Annensky.‘The souls of those I love are on high stars.’.From – Secrets of the Trade: VII Epigram.From – Secrets of the Trade: I Creation.‘Yes, I loved those nocturnal gatherings – ’.‘The bridge of logs is black and twisted,’.‘It’s fine here: the rustle and crackle ’.‘To feel thoroughly ill, to sweat in delirium,’.‘I’m not one of those who left their land’.‘Don’t taunt your heart with earthly joys,’.‘Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,’.‘You should appear less often in my dreams’.‘Is this century worse than those before?’.‘I hear the oriole’s ever-mournful voice,’.‘I was not born too early or too late,’.‘Like a white stone in a well’s depths,’.‘I’ll erase this day from your memory,’.‘I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –’.‘The evening light is broad and yellow,’.‘I’ll be there and weariness will vanish.’.‘Because somewhere there’s simplicity and light,’. ![]()
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