When you are breeding a species, name for the individuals are not of utmost importance. It is about the "whole" and not the "parts". I respectfully want Mary Ann you realize that people who breed animals are not necessarily "heartless thugs". My grandfather cared for all of his Angus cattle and they were his life, but he really loved them when the beef futures went up 12 cents.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
For Mary Ann--1985 InternationalTiger Stud Book--Siberian section
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade, I was comparing this to the 2005 edition, twenty years later. I think that the newer one is much easier to read, and that's probably why the format was changed somewhat.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
This was the German version where the records were kept. Part of the allure and fun of mucking about in out pedigree's is making sense of them. Or at least I enjoy that. LOL
Wade
Wade, I enjoy it too immensely, until something like the connection I just made with the Detroit tigers, and then it saddens and angers me.
Mary Ann
Wade, speaking of mucking around in studbooks, I once followed the Siberian descendants of Tony's grandfather Kubla (Leipzig Zoo International Tiger Studbook #293), and found a few that we are familiar with. One is Dmitri at Philadelphia #4072. Another is Tatiana at Toronto #4252, not to be confused with the unfortunate Tatiana #4814 who was executed at San Francisco on Christmas Day. It's a puzzle why given that Sioux Falls had a breeding pair of studbook Siberian tigers, they chose to breed the Siberian male to a former circus tigress, over and over. I'm glad that they did or we wouldn't have had Tony, but it makes no sense to me why.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
It is why there became a need for law's and regulations. And this is where I take a lot of heat from some colleagues. The animal business historically was a very unethical one. Example, when there was a market for tiger cubs, it was not a consideration what there parentage was. Even from a performance sense it has no value, unless you are breeding for a type or athletic individual. One they started discussing "release", the keeping of pure viable bloodlines became very important, and one of the reasons I have always frowned on the Tiglon type situations. Breeding proper animals is a lot harder and takes a lot longer, then just putting a male and a female together and letting them have a go at it.
Wade
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