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The Owl thread is fantastic. It makes you look at all the creatures we have on this planet we live on and you just have to admit it's an amazing place with some amazing life. Tigers are my real passion. They've got to be one of, if not the most efficient hunting and killing machines on earth. Sadly, there isn't many left in the wild. Although there are no accurate estimates of the world tiger population, numbers are thought to have fallen by over 95% since the turn of the 20th century – down from perhaps 100,000 to the current estimate of possibly as few as 3,200 inidividuals. Three subspecies – Bali, Javan and Caspian tigers – were extinct by the 1980s. Even in India, the species' stronghold, a recent government census suggests there may be as few as 1,400 tigers left. Estimates of how many Bengal Tigers in the wild stand at a mere 1,400, where as the Siberian Tiger is estimated to have only 450 left in the wild. The Indochinese Tiger doesn't fare any better with around 300 left in the wild. Sumatran Tigers are down to around less than 400 whereas the South Chinese Tiger has not been seen in the wild for more than 25 years leading scientists to believe the species is functionally extinct. Bengal Tiger Siberian Tiger Indochinese Tiger Malayan Tiger South China Tiger Sumatran Tiger Also, sadly, the White Bengal Tiger is extinct in the wild.

Natasha Kaplinsky or Kate Silverton?