Words to live by..
kari-shma: (via: Amazing Posts)
- Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
- Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
- Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
- If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
- If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
- It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
- Never buy a car you can’t push.
- Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you don’t have a leg to stand on.
- Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
- The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late.
- The Second mouse gets the cheese
- When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
- Birthdays are good for you, the more you have, the longer you live.
- You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
- Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
- Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
- We could learn a lot from crayons, some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left open.
While the white or golden tabby coloration of these animals may be pretty, what the zoos won’t tell you is that, in reality, it’s a deadly genetic mutation. They are not a subspecies, and are not albino.
The white gene is a double-recessive one caused mostly by inbreeding (in a natural mating, there is only a one in 10,000 chance that a tiger will be white), which is why they say that it exists ‘only in captivity’. Zoos are not willing to wait for this one in 10,000 miracle tiger, and so find that the only other way to produce them is through inbreeding.
Even though it does happen naturally in the wild that tigers can be born white, there are many reports of wild tiger mothers attempting to smother their white cubs to death, because the coloration also makes the tigers more visible to prey. In a natural setting, white tigers and golden tabby tigers would starve to death, or die of other complications. This maternal behavior is noted even today in zoos, and often, white tigers must be taken from their mothers immediately after birth. The Singapore Zoo reported that one of their mother tigers refused to nurse her white cubs, so handlers had to raise the infant tiger themselves.Also, all white tigers are cross-eyed, even if it is not readily apparent. This is because the gene which makes them white also messes up the way their eyes are wired to their brains. Other deformities include serious dental problems and deformed bone structure. Mental issues are probably the most common result (I watched at a roadside zoo here in Oregon as a white tiger licked a concrete wall until its tongue bled). Gnawing on fences or enclosure walls, pacing and constant salivation are other sure signs that the cat you are looking at suffers from the affects of its unfortunate ancestry.
Over all, it’s a sad issue which is not being noted by the public enough to end it. Most zoos and safari parks won’t even tell you about the inbreeding issue, or will claim that their white tigers were a ‘natural’ occurrence. But there have been no ‘natural’ white tiger births since 1951.
This article makes me so sad because White Tigers are my favorite land animal and I had no idea about any of this… :[
Chuck: NYU is hard, but Blair Waldorf does not give up.
Blair: I’m not giving up, i’ve made a strategic retreat.
Chuck: Potato-Potato.
Blair: You don’t understand.
Chuck: I do understand, let me help.
Blair: No, Chuck! NYU is not the Upper East Side, they don’t care about Constance or the social high arcy. They don’t care that i’m Blair Waldorf! It’s over.
Chuck: And you’d do this to me?
Blair: What are you talking about?
Chuck: I’m Chuck Bass, and I told you I love you. You’re saying i’m easier to win over than a bunch of pseudo intellectual homesick malcontents. You’d really insult me like that?
Blair: Is that how it is?
Chuck: That’s exactly how it is. So the next time you forgot you’re Blair Waldorf, remember i’m Chuck Bass, and I love you.
