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Welcome to the World's Largest Tiger Farm,'' says the green-and-blue sign outside Somphong Temsiriphong's new zoo. The Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. is certainly a breed apart. Down a country road 2 1/2 hours from the roar of Bangkok traffic, the private reserve is home to an eclectic collection of wallabies, deer, camels and 20,000 Asian crocodiles. But the budding zookeeper's pride--and the source of considerable controversy among conservationists around the world--is his menagerie of 35 hybrid Asian tigers. ``Some of these animals are becoming extinct, and I want to have...
Building up the population of one of the world's most endangered species would seem to be a proper and magnanimous gesture, but conservationists are outraged by what they suspect is Somphong's long-term goal: to harvest and sell tiger penises and other body parts that bring high prices in Asia. Scientific evidence to the contrary, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine insist that crushed tiger bones and tiger genitalia can cure everything from arthritis to impotence. By most estimates, only about 5,000 tigers are left in the wild, largely because of the price they bring poachers. Despite...
...streets were painted with maroon and gold tiger paws, and all of the local businesses wished the team well in their window signs...
...that permit traffic in endangered animals and plants, but it rarely acts -- despite a 1978 law that authorizes trade sanctions against the offenders. Last spring, finally, the Administration used the law for the first time. It slapped a ban on some products from Taiwan, citing the black market in tiger body parts and rhinoceros horns, which are used as aphrodisiacs and in traditional medicines...
...Egan (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95), is just what a funny book for little kids ought to be: silly. Hodges, an elephant, runs a cafe that would be fairly normal, except that his crazy pet duck causes a lot of trouble. Things get out of control when three tough tigers show up (ignoring the no tigers sign) and decide that roast duck would be just dandy. Hodges whaps the biggest tiger with a squishy souffle, and the duck dives into a large raspberry tart to hide. Alas, his back end sticks out, and the tigers growl hungrily, having no trouble imagining...