Did everyone notice there is actually an orange tiger sleeping on the platform in this photo? They rotate orange and white (mostly white). This is right at the entrance to the casino - the first thing you see as you walk in - and it is almost always packed with people. I can't believe there was such a large opening along the railing for this photo. Directly behind is a large white-tiger themed gift shop ($$$).
The size of the exhibit is not too bad, the large pool is fine because tigers do like water, but as all have observed it is as fake as you can get. All cement - no natural substrate (unlike the pay-to-enter Secret Garden in the back of the casino, which is much more naturalistic). It is the epitomy of Las Vegas, just an excessive awful city (I lived there for a few months, against my better judgement because my wife at the time wanted to leave Tucson for someplace more exciting, but then divorced me a few months later so I came straight back to Tucson).
As for the conservation efforts that were eluded to, they used to donate some money (not sure how much) to the Save The Tiger Fund. They ran some commercials here in the U.S. with Sigfreid and Roy showing their white tigers and talking about how wild tigers were endangered and asking people to join them in donating - with the last scene having a white tiger change to orange. Great that they did it, but it must have been an uncomfortable alliance, since the Save The Tiger Fund website has a very strong anti-white tiger page on it.
I visited The Secret Garden over New Years. It was naturalistic and not like the photo at the top of this thread. Pretty nice, actually, with lawn and waterfalls. I blogged about wildlife in Las Vegas, with a few photos. see htttp://annlittlewood.blogspot.com
This habitat closed in 2008 and was demolished and replaced with the upscale burger restaurant pictured here:
The white tigers are still displayed in Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in outdoor exhibits that are not fantastic but are much less harsh than this former habitat.
Well, no more free tiger viewing. Now everyone who wants to see them has to pay to go in the back. A bit of a ripoff, considering it is the same admission fee as many full zoos (and is actually more expensive than my home zoo).
Did everyone notice there is actually an orange tiger sleeping on the platform in this photo? They rotate orange and white (mostly white). This is right at the entrance to the casino - the first thing you see as you walk in - and it is almost always packed with people. I can't believe there was such a large opening along the railing for this photo. Directly behind is a large white-tiger themed gift shop ($$$).
The size of the exhibit is not too bad, the large pool is fine because tigers do like water, but as all have observed it is as fake as you can get. All cement - no natural substrate (unlike the pay-to-enter Secret Garden in the back of the casino, which is much more naturalistic). It is the epitomy of Las Vegas, just an excessive awful city (I lived there for a few months, against my better judgement because my wife at the time wanted to leave Tucson for someplace more exciting, but then divorced me a few months later so I came straight back to Tucson).
As for the conservation efforts that were eluded to, they used to donate some money (not sure how much) to the Save The Tiger Fund. They ran some commercials here in the U.S. with Sigfreid and Roy showing their white tigers and talking about how wild tigers were endangered and asking people to join them in donating - with the last scene having a white tiger change to orange. Great that they did it, but it must have been an uncomfortable alliance, since the Save The Tiger Fund website has a very strong anti-white tiger page on it.
This is pretty much my opinion on Vegas. Seems fun for the first five seconds but then it just gets boring. I was there for a week and seeing as how I was a kid at the time, there wasn't anything for me to do. IMO, Vegas is just a city for getting drunk and blowing your money and besides I live next to New York City.
"I think the thing which best summed up Las Vegas for me was that, when we went a few years back, Lake Mead (the source of all the city's water) only had three years supply left. Yet the city is the fastest growing in North America (the population increases by 20,000 people a month) so all these people were coming in and if it didn't rain in the next three years (bearing in mind the city is in the middle of the Nevada Desert) the place would become a ghost town."
The thing is, the State of Nevada *(meaning Vegas when it comes to Lake Mead) actually
banks about 50,000 acre feet of water every year-even with the drought. It is California and Arizona who use too much water from Lake Mead.
