Global Tiger Scoreboard: Stripes, Spin, and the Absurd Luxury of Keeping Count By Our Man in the Anthropocene, filing from a press seat somewhere between a Bangladeshi delta and a Dubai influencer’s private zoo The phrase “tigers score” usually lands in two camps: sports fans who think it refers to Detroit’s baseball misadventures, and conservationists…
Tigers, as it turns out, are the last aristocrats left on earth. While we bicker over crypto crashes and airline legroom, roughly 4,500 striped monarchs still insist on private estates—though the real estate keeps shrinking faster than a Russian oligarch’s yacht registry. From the mangrove slums of the Sundarbans to the snow-dusted oligarch playground of…
Twycross Zoo and the Great Ape Paradox: How a Modest English Menagerie Became a Final Embassy for Our Cousins From the satellite’s-eye view, Twycross Zoo sits like a green postage stamp in the middle of England’s post-industrial Midlands, a region once famous for ceramic toilets and now for Amazon fulfillment centers. Zoom in and you’ll…
