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November
2002
The Sanctuary
Receives 3 Brown Lemurs
We are happy to announce the addition of three new members
to the Tiger Homes Sanctuary (THS) family. Our friends Michael
and Amber Zito from the Primate Conservancy have placed three
extremely friendly Brown Lemurs (Lemur fulvus fulvus) with
us. You may remember that Mike and Amber also placed the
group of Ring-tailed Lemurs with us that we now have on cam
in their habitat.  More
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October
2002
We have
a new GIFT-SHOP
David and I are very excited to announce the addition of
a newly designed gift-shop. In addition to being totally
revamped, we have worked very hard to bring our fans new
Tiger Homes products. More
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September
2002
Tigerhomes
makes its 2nd Educational Video
Well, you're not going to believe it! Tigerhomes Sanctuary
(THS) actually filmed its 2nd educational video. As stated
in the July 2002 chronicle, THS has decided to put together
a series of short educational films. Concentrating on the
academic environment, we will provide a curriculum to assist
teachers in their lesson plans. More |
August
2002
The Sanctuary
has a Great Grandchild
August was another exciting month
for us here at the Sanctuary. As stated in some of the other
Chronicles, Tiger Homes Wildlife
Sanctuary houses other species of rare and highly interesting
wildlife not seen on camera (YET)! One of these animals is
called a "Bush baby" or Galago. Bush babies are
Prosimian primates just like the lemurs from Madagascar but
instead come from the mainland of Africa. As with the lemurs,
there are many separate species of Galago. The Sanctuary
houses the second largest species of Bush baby called Galago
garnettii. More
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July 2002
Our
First Educational Movie!
I am pleased to announce that July 2002 marked a significant
step foward in Tiger Home's efforts to promote wildlife
education and conservation. We have started an educational
video series covering very specific areas of wildlife lessons. With the
help of one of the Sanctuary's best friends, Nate Scripture,
we have completed the first video in the series. Can you guess
what the subject matter was? I'll give you a hint; these rare
and highly endangered animals live on the Island of
Madagascar! More
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June 2002
Meet
a wonderful group of Ring-tailed Lemurs
For a long time Dave and I have wanted
to put a group of Ring-tailed lemurs up on camera. Ring-tailed
lemurs are by far the most
recognized species of lemur. For obvious reasons they were
named for their highly contrasting Black & White ringed
tails. They are found on the South and Southwestern part of
the island of Madagascar and live in large groups or "Troops" (often
exceeding 20 individuals). It is for this reason that David
and I have held out for so long in putting them on camera.
We really wanted to show our viewing audience the complex nature
of a true Ring-tailed lemur society in action, not just one
or two animals. More
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May 2002
Discovery
Channel Adopts Our Cams
May was a very exciting month for David and me. For the past
8 months we have been working very closely with the Discovery
Channel and their highly professional staff in the attempt
to educate an even larger portion of Earth's population. This
month signified the fruition of that relationship with the
Discovery Channel placing some of the Sanctuary's animal cameras
on their web site. We are very excited to be working with them
in the hopes that this platform will reach even greater numbers
of people interested in learning about the conservation of
these remarkable animals. It has been a long road ironing out
all the technical details and we are so happy to have finally
reached this point. More
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April 2002
Wow! These
lizards have sharp teeth!
Many of our viewers are not aware of
this; but the Tigerhomes Sanctuary houses numerous species
of wildlife not on camera.
Among this group of animals is the rare and recently described
Crocodile Monitor (Varanus salvadorii) lizard
of New Guinea.
This remarkable animal is said to be the longest living lizard
with documented examples of over 14 feet in length. Now, I
know what many of you are thinking, "I always thought
the Komodo Dragon was the biggest lizard in town", WRONG!
Although the Komodo Dragon is a huge lizard, its true claim
to fame should be that it is the heaviest not the largest.
To date the largest documented Komodo Dragon was a male measuring
10'2" and weighing in over 350 pounds. As mentioned above,
the Crocodile Monitor can achieve a length of well over 10'2",
but weighs significantly less. Although my research could not
come up with the highest recorded weight on this species I
can attest to the fact that the Sanctuary's largest male (9
feet) weighs in around 60 pounds. This low weight to size ratio
is due to the fact that this species of monitor lizard is primarily
tree dwelling or arboreal were as the Komodo is land dwelling
or terrestrial.
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News for the month of March 2002
Tiger Habitat
Gets A Pond
March was an exciting month for Dave and I! Not to mention
Marcan and Sherikon! We were finally able to do something we
have been looking forward to for sometime, BUILD A
POND for
their tiger habitat! More
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February 2002
February and
January are Combined Chronicles
Both January and February were months
of habitat improvement. Dave and I focused on adding additional
landscaping to both
the Red Ruffed Lemur and the Black & White Ruffed Lemur
habitats. In addition, we reseeded the lion, tiger and lemur
habitats with an annual Rye Grass. More
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