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17-year-old
endangered tiger
euthanized at
Honolulu Zoo
HONOLULU (AP) — An endangered
Sumatran tiger at the Honolulu Zoo has
been euthanized.
The tiger, named Berani, was put down
in August at the age of 17, the Honolulu
Star-Advertiser reported. His 18th
birthday would have been September 4.
Berani was born at the Phoenix Zoo in
1999. He was moved to Honolulu in
November 2005.
The decision to put Berani down was
made by veterinarian staff and animal
keepers, zoo officials said.
The life expectancy of Sumatran tigers
at zoos is 18.4 years and about 12 years in
the wild, officials said.
There are fewer than 500 Sumatran
tigers and about 200 of them live in zoos as
part of a worldwide conservation effort,
according to the zoo.
Last year, the Honolulu Zoo’s Sumatran
tiger named Djelita died after holding the
Guinness World Record as the oldest living
tiger in captivity at more than 25 years old.
Chrissie, a female Sumatran tiger,
remains at the zoo.
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Back to bomb shelters?
North Korea threats revive nuke fears
Continued from page 7
it’s ever come to nuclear war, the missiles
were removed and the shelters faded from
public interest.
Now they, too, seem to be having a
revival.
“When Trump took office it doubled our
sales, and then when he started making
crazy statements we got a lot more orders,”
says Walton McCarthy of Norad Shelter
Systems LLC of Garland, Texas. “Between
now and a year ago, we’ve quadrupled our
sales.”
His competitor, California-based Atlas
Survival Shelters, says it sold 30 shelters
in three days. During its first year in
business in 2011 it sold only 10.
Bill Miller, a 74-year-old retired film
director
living
in
Sherborn,
Massachusetts, thinks these days are
more nerve-wracking than the standoff in
October 1962.
“I think it’s much, much crazier, scarier
times,” he said. “I think the people who
were in charge in the Kennedy administra-
tion had much more of a handle on it.”
Nathan Guerrero, a 22-year-old political
science major from Fullerton, California,
agrees, saying he learned in history class
that the “shining example” of a way to
resolve such a conflict was how Kennedy’s
brother and attorney general, Robert
Kennedy, brokered the tense negotiations.
“But knowing the way the current
administration has sort of been carrying
itself, it doesn’t look like they are keen to
solving things diplomatically,” he said.
“As a young person, honestly, it’s pretty
unsettling,” he continued.
Had he given any thought to building a
backyard bomb shelter?
BACK TO BOMB SHELTERS? In this April 28, 1961 file photo, a dog sits near a police officer in the
middle of an empty Times Square during a 10-minute civil-defense test air raid alert in New York. For some baby
boomers, North Korea’s nuclear advances and the Trump administration’s response have prompted flashbacks
to a time when they were young, and when they prayed each night that they might awaken the next morning. For
their children, the North Korean crisis was a taste of what the Cold War was like. (AP Photo/Bob Goldberg, File)
“I’d be lying if I said such crazy things
haven’t crossed my mind,” he said,
laughing nervously. “But in reality it
doesn’t strike me as I’d be ready to go
shopping for bunkers yet.” Instead, he
studies for law school and tries “not to
think too much about it.”
Other Americans are more sanguine
about the possibility of nuclear war. Rob
Stapleton has lived in Anchorage, Alaska,
since 1975, and he is aware that Alaska
has been considered a possible target
because it is within reach of North Korean
missiles.
“There’s been some discussion about it
around the beer barrel and I’m sure the
United States is taking it seriously, but
we’re not too concerned around here,” he
said.
Alaska is so vast and spread out, said
Stapleton, that he and his friends can’t
imagine why North Korea would waste its
time attacking The Last Frontier.
“I mean sure you’d be making a
statement, but you’d not really be doing
any damage.”
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