— Tigers could become extinct in the wild in two decades unless conservation efforts are stepped up to halt the decline in their population, wildlife experts said on Wednesday…
…barely 3,500 tigers are estimated to be roaming in the wild in twelve Asian countries and Russia compared to about 100,000 a century ago, according to conservationists and other experts.
Tigers are being illegally killed for their body parts, with skins selling for up to $20,000 on the black market in countries like China. The destruction of habitats and the depletion of their prey base also figures in the dwindling number of tigers. Tiger habitat alone has declined by 40% in the past decade due to the destruction of forests…
…and by the way…Happy Halloween from Foxsylvania!
— A nineteen year old singer-songwriter from Toronto, Taylor Mitchell, was attacked and killed by coyotes as she was hiking alone in a park in eastern Canada. 
– – If you’re like me, you’ve always loved Halloween…I mean, really loved it! Halloween is the one day of the mundane world year that kinda allows the freak show playing in the heads of many of us for the other 364 
– – MonsterQuest finally came up with their long-awaited episode on the Yeti on October 25th after previous ho-hum episodes on wild dogs and rats.- –
— I can’t take the loss of many more of my childhood icons; Captain 
– -You don’t often hear about blue whales washing ashore, but one did on the Northern California coast near Fort Bragg Monday night. 
– -A bear walked into a beer department in Wisconsin…no, it really happened last Thursday! The 125-pound black bear wandered into a Hayward grocery store, went up and down the aisles, and then decided to check out the bruin, going into the beer cooler in the liquor department, and climbing twelve feet up onto a shelf! No other customers were in the store at the time, and the single store clerk just kind of blocked things off and summoned authorities.
– – Goats are going through a bit of a renaissance lately…there’s a wonderful new Thera-gesic arthritis commercial with an old woman extolling the virtue of goat tears 
— Jazz musicians have often been called cats, and Nora is literally that. This gray tabby cat was adopted from a shelter in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and when a year old climbed up onto the bench in front of a Yamaha piano in the middle of the night and began to play! She has continued to tickle the ivories on a daily basis, at times playing duets with her owner and her owner’s students; she also plays alone, gravitating towards the D-E-F range on the keyboard, and including the black keys in her playing. 
– – MysteryQuest’s “Alien Cover-Up” episode promised much, and delivered little. We’ve traveled this ground before, and seen it better covered; Area 51, 
FOXSYLVANIA 
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