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LP's Diary Only she should be posting here.
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August 2nd- As if it weren't bad enough being looked at as a freak... now friends are acting totally weird.. Though relationships are strained, this growth might be just the thing needed to get everything back to peachy once again.

Sept 29th- What a journey! After narrowly escaping that haunted house of mirrors Willow has grown to a beautiful young child. Perhaps her interests are a little strange.. and she's a little more mature then some of the other children, but it just goes to show how much she's learned and grown in the past months. heart

Nov 25th- Indulging in all the attention and love Willow sprang to life as a beautiful tiger. :3

Oct 8th- A little bit of a loner huh? But not totally insenstive to others? A tiger fits you perfectly, and their connection to the dragon via the chinese zodiac predictions a hopefully wonderful family bond.


General Info:
Name: Willow
Gender: Female
Size: 15 inches
Born: Oct 8th
Personality: Who needs life experience when you can watch it all unfold via the TV screen? An intellegent and often playful girl who takes most of her knowledge in the form of "oh, I saw them do that in this tv show once!", which can occassion lead to a naivity of sorts. Having strayed a little further from the

Skills:
Speaking to ghosts: 5/10
Hunting: 4/10 (as literal or metaphoric as you please)
Tarot reading: 2/10

Status:

Social: Indifferent
Energy: Mellow
Ability: Paranormal, strong, stealth
Mental: TV knowledge ^ ^;

all about ze tigers


Class - Mammilia
Order - Carnivora
Family - Felidae
Genus - Panthera
Species - Panthera Tigris

Sub-Species
P. tigris tigris (bengal)
P. tigris altaica (siberian)
P. tigris corbetti (indo-china)
P. tigris sumatrae (sumatran)

Extinct

P. tigris lecoqui
P. tigris amoyensis (South Chinese)
P. tigris sondaica (Javan)
P. tigris baltica (Bali)
P. tigris virgata (Caspian)


Tiger Life Style

Gestation - 103 days
Litter size - 1 - 7 cubs
Age of Independence - 18 - 28 months
Longeity - average 8 - 10 years. Longer in captivity

A tiger will sneak up to about 30 - 85 feet and launches itself at the prey.
Prey include= Chital, sambar, gaur, bearded pig, rhino, monkey, crab, water buffalo, and sometimes porcupine, reptiles, frogs and fish. On the average, for every 20 hunt attempts 19 are a failure.



Short Tiger information

Bengal Tiger/Royal Bengal Tiger
tigris
Weight= 400 - 450 pounds
Location= Indian subcontinent

Caspian tiger
virgata
Weight= male: 375 to 530 pounds
Location= Turkey into Asia
Status= Extinct in 1970's

Amur or Siberian Tiger
altaica
Weight= 500 - 700 pounds
Location= Russia, China and North Korea
Status= rare

Javan tiger
sondaica
Weight= male: 220 to 310 pounds
Location= Indonesia
Status= Extinct in 1980's

South China tiger
amoyensis
Weight= male: 285 to 385 pounds
Most Endangered of the tigers. Marked in January of 2000 as extinct in the wild. Broad, short stripes spread far apart.
Location= South-Central China
Statis= Extinct in the wild- year 2000

Bali tiger
baltica
Weight= male: 200 to 220 pounds
Location= Bali and Indonesia
Status= Extinct in 1940's

Sumartran tiger
sumatrae
Weight= male: 300 pounds
Location= Sumarta and Indonesia

Indo-Chinese tiger
corbetti
Weight= male: 390 pounds
Location= Continental South-East Asia



The tiger's early ancestor gave rise to two lines of cats- The stabbing cats and the biting cats. The stabbing cats were among the largest and most powerful predators of their day. The best known was called Smilodon (SMILE-O-don) or the Sabor-toothed tiger. It's most striking feature was it's enormous canine teeth, which were upto 6 inches long and curved backward.

Because it had weak jaws, it used these to stab it's prey. Hacking into the neck region, then retreating as the animal bled to death. All stabbing cats are extinct today.

Although Smilodon is called the Saber-toothed tiger, it is only distantly related to the tiger of today.
Tigers evolved from the second evolutionary line, the biting cats. Unlike the stabbing cats, biting cats have powerful jaws and kill their prey by hooking the canines in the flesh, then snaping the neck or strangling the prey. The canines are vital to the tiger. Should it loose them, it would have nothing with which to grab prey, and it would then eventually starve to death.

The tiger as we know it today may of evolved in the cold northern forests of Siberia. or another theory is they evolved in China 2 ma ago. Much confusion and disagreement on the evolution and spread of Panthera Tigris. It started spreading throughout Asia about 2 ma, during the Quaternary period. It's ancestry can be traced back to the small animal that is the ancester of all modern cats.

No one knows for sure how tigers spread out to reach their present homes, but it is thought that worsening weather conditions in Siberia forced them to move south. Once they reached warmer habitats, they spread to the east and west until they reached impassable barriers such as the vast mountain range of the Himalayas and the Gobi desert.

Some tigers headed into Manchuria and Korea, while others reached Turkestan and, eventually India. It is interesting to note that there are no tigers in Sri Lanka, which sugests that they did not arrive in India until after that island separated from the mainland. The tigers settled into the lush Indian forests and their numbers grew dramatically. They continued to spread eastword, reaching China, Indo China and the Malay Peninsula. Some even managed to cross the sea to Sumatra, then moved into Java and Bali. From there the sea was too wide for even this accomplished swimmer. Consequently there are no tigers in Borneo or Sulawesi.

For thousands of years people worshipped tigers, made tigers symbles of courage and strength, wrote songs and poems to tigers, painted pictures of tigers, even dressed up as tigers and assumed tigrine virtues and power. In all that period, tigers flourished and people flourished: but people flourished more. That has changed everything, for people and for tigers along with most of the rest of creation - Have had to pay the price.





can have orange or white background coat


-White Bengals are not Albino because they have icey blue eyes instead of the pink eyes that Albinos have. The reason they are white is because they've acquired the white coat from a recessive mutant gene.

-Did you know that the frist white tiger was captured in the Rewa forest in India?
The Frist white tiger caught was a male tiger. The Maharajah kept him and mated this white tiger to a normally colored female. Producing a normal colored litter. From the second litter one female was mated back to the white tiger, producing white cubs. Occasionaly a white tiger is seen in the wilds of Rewa forests.

Normal coat colour for a Indian or Bengal Tiger is Light yellowish to reddish yellowish coat and black stripes. Whiskers are about 2.8 inches long.

The Bengal tiger, once so common, has been on the decline for a long time. The tiger of India only became really endangered after the second world war when controlled hunting gave way to indiscriminate slaughter. Many wiped out from insecticides and also habitat distruction. In the southern parts of the peninsula, tigers have become very rare, surviving mainly in sanctuaries. The Bengal is by far the most numerous of the existing tiger species.

Found on the mainland of southeastern Asia and in central and southern India. Living in a wide range of habitats. Forests, wet lands, mangroves, cold high altitudes and arid forests.

Males are about 9 1/2 feet from head to tail weighing around 480 pounds, while the femals are 8 feet and 300 pounds.

Prey is usually wild deer and cattle. Their priorities are water and enough cover to all them to hunt effectivly. May eat as much as 65 pounds of meat in one meal and then go to the water to drink.









Dark with short narrow stripes. Slimmer and smaller than the South Chinese Tiger. It was once common throughout Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia and Burma. Now-a-days it's numbers few and is found in the jungles of Malaysia, Thailand, Burma and much of Indo China.

































Smallest and darkest of the tigers. Broad black stripes closely spaced, often doubled. Stripes on front legs. The smallest of the tigers. Found in Sumatra, Indonesia. Threatoned from poaching, habitat loss and human encroachment.





















They have paler coloring then other tigers, with dark brown to black stripes. White chest, belly and ruff around neck. They're large, bulky body and thick coat are adaptions to life in the cold, where tempratures can drop to -35? F. They also tends to have a higher proportion of white on they're coat, helping it blend into the snowy background.

Found in the far eastern area of Russia in the forests of Siberia. The largest of all living cats, measuring up to 13 feet long and weighing about 617 pounds. They hava a massive head, long fur and stocky hind legs.

They're threatened by poaching and human encroachment

~The heaviest Siberian tiger on record weighed almost 850 pounds.
One Siberian tiger traveled 620 miles in 22 days in search of food.
A Siberian tiger needs to eat over 20 pounds of meat a day to sustain itself in the cold climate. It is capable of eating over 100 pounds of meat in one setting



Found in the forests of Siberia. Siberian Tigers are the largest of all living cats, measuring up to 13 feet long and weighing about 617 pounds.

My infortmation gotten from Land of the Big Cats

Ghosties

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Willow's Friends

Kesin
Nayati heart
Acia
Erae
Carl
Toby
Sid
Ziggy
Trea
Willie
Vetch
Rouge
Luse

.... more to come

Gifts

Home Sweet Home [okay seeing as I lost this it'll be a variation of what I remember]

Woods:

One might not beleive it when the saying 'The Woods Are Alive' but quite opposing to the more popular thoughts; the woods indeed are something not to be doubted. the trails craved into the woods seem to change everytime you take one but they all lead to where you want to go. A few miles into the woods there lies a seemingly small cave with a tree, blocking most of the passageway. Out behind the cave spans an clearing as round as you please a good half a mile in diameter. All inside this circle there are many of flowers, a ring around the outside of the flowers and a path parting each kind. the walk ways are large enough for two people to walk. Down south of the cave is a river that leads east out to the ocean; altought that's a several mile walk it's really nice at sundown. What's on the other side of the woods when it ends is not known but north from the cave is the way to get to the velveteen shop. The ends to of the woods to the west also hasn't been explored so no telling where that'll lead you either.



Entrance Way:
a fifth of a mile long with blood red, everlasting encahnted, candles every half foot apart the frist two always lit so as one can light all the candles down the path. It steeps downwards as you enter into the main room.

Main Room:
Decorated with mostly midevil style furniture The inside fo the cave is really rather nice. Specailly durning the heat of summer because it says nice and cool. Off to one side and in the middle is a table large enough to seat about 10-15 people. Chairs line the table; and the two chairs that sit at either end of the table facing each other have arm rests while the others do not. and in the center is candles, all like the ones in the entrance way. There's a large fruit bowl smack in the middle of the table, that's always over flowing with different fuirts, many not what you'd expect to find in these woods. and in between every other candle is a smaller fruit bowl also over flowing with foods. The table is away set with the following. A large red dinner plate, ontop of that is a dessert plate, then a bread plate, and finally a salad bowl. Wine glasses sit sparkling like the day they were left waiting for a large feast, forks, spoons and knives sit at their appoirated spots also waiting.

In the excate middle of the room hanging high above everything in a chandler always lit so no matter how dark it is there is always lite to see by. Under the chandler is a rug that seems to have come right out of midevil times. Opposite of the table sits two couchs and three chairs each with matching foot stools. The two couchs are made of black leather and the Chairs with foot stools are of red. Sitting in the middle of this arrangment is a midevil style coffee table, made most likely of pure redwood.

'Tree house':


Garden:



-Chinese/Japanese Styled Temple

Main Room:

Kitchen:

Willow's Room:

Guest Room 1:

Guest Room 2:

Guest Room 3:

Guest Room 4:

Garden:

Koi Pond:

'Lake' and 'island':