Rare Chinese tiger fights for survival... in South Africa - AFP, Dec 7th 2007
Submitted by susan on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 18:06.
by Fran Blandy
PHILIPPOLIS, South Africa (AFP) — Poised and alert, the South China tiger creeps along the drenched savannah - one of the world's rarest big cats who recently produced new hope in a foreign land to save her dying species.
Shoulders hunched, Cathay bounds playfully towards another tiger named Madonna, their burnt orange coats and sharp black stripes an unusual sight in the African grasslands, now the scene of their fight for survival.
On November 23, Cathay gave birth to the first cub of this exceptionally endangered species born outside of China -- the product of an ambitious and much-criticised project.
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