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Tiger ubiquitous as China embraces Year of Tiger

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-02-09 12:01
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Tiger ubiquitous as China embraces Year of Tiger

Sun Ximing, a worker at the Suzhou South China Conservation Base, holds a seven-week-old tiger cub after feeding it on February 2, 2010. Now one of the world's rarest and most elusive of mammals, the South China tiger is a species fully protected by the Chinese government, with none surviving in the wild. [Agencies]