With better understanding of the main threat to tigers and networking with the relevant stakeholders across the two nations, our conference participants strengthened tiger conservation by responding to the call to specific actions. It was a lot longer (walk) than I expected,” said Swinney with a laugh. “There were a lot of people there and it took us a while to get through the crowd. But it was terrific. It was great for the players to see that support.” That first week, his head was spinning with ideas. I can attest to that because I got a lot of late-night phone calls from him. This event was held in conjunction with Heart for Nature celebrating World Animal Day, and Our Wild Neighbours campaign, and is supported by National Parks Board, Singapore, and the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore. We were thrilled to have His Royal Highness, the Regent of Pahang, Crown Prince Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Ibni Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustapha Billah Shah and Minister Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development and Minister-in-Charge of Social Services Integration, as our Guests-of-Honour for this event. In the beginning, in the 1960s -- before Tiger Walk became "the most copied tradition in all of college football," Auburn athletic director David Housel said with pride, not pique -- it was just a bunch of kids running up to Donahue Drive to see the Auburn Tigers walk from their dorm to the game.

Adult male Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) weigh about 220 kg (480 lbs.) and measure about 2.9 m (9.5 ft) in length. Females are slightly smaller with an average weight of 140 kg (300 lbs.) and 2.5 m (8 ft) in length. It is a jungle out there," exclaims Bishnu. "We do not know what we will meet or encounter. We seek the blessings of the Forest Goddess so that she may guide us through safety in our days and nights in the forests," he adds.Each gameday, the Tigers walk from the Athletics Complex down Donahue Drive to Jordan-Hare Stadium. But the team doesn't make the walk alone; instead, they are cheered on by the thousands of Auburn fans who line the street and, in the process, create one of the great scenes in college football. The walk begins two hours before each game.

Tiger Walk began to get legs a quarter-century ago, when coach Doug Barfield urged the fans to line the streets. Barfield, who now works at the Alabama High School Athletic Association, dismisses the notion that he has any ownership. But Tiger Walk didn't become Tiger Walk until 1989, when Alabama came to Auburn for the first time in the history of the sport's most fevered intrastate rivalry. The hind legs of the tiger are longer than their front legs. This characteristic enables them to leap forward distances up to 10 meters (32.5 ft). The primary goal of Singapore Tiger Week is to spur action against the illegal wildlife trade and poaching that is decimating tiger populations across Asia, and closer to home, where the Malayan tiger is close to extinction. Additionally, it aims to strengthen the cooperation and collaboration between Singapore and Malaysia towards saving the Malayan tiger from its imminent extinction. I have never covered a riot. I have never covered the police beat. The mayhem I witness is contained between the white lines.I have covered nearly every major college football rivalry. And on nearly 90 campuses, from Hawaii to Boston College, Washington to Miami; in six different countries, from Russia to Texas (It's Like a Whole Other Country), only once have I genuinely feared for my safety. Tigers also suffer from habitat loss. When people move into areas where tigers live, tigers are forced into smaller and smaller areas where there may not be enough food for the big cats to survive.

There are currently six subspecies of tigers, each living in different habitats: flooded mangrove forests, arid forests, tropical forests, and taiga. The different subspecies are found in small areas of Asia, India, and Russia. The largest subspecies lives in snowy areas of Russia. The smallest and darkest subspecies is found farther south, in the jungles of Indonesia. Female tigers are always smaller than males. Young Amur tiger in the snow.The bones of the tiger's front legs are strong and dense to support the large musculature needed to take down large prey. Tigers possess two types of hair, guard hair and underfur. The guard hairs are longer and more durable than the underfur and mainly function for protection purposes. The primary function of the tiger's hair is for warmth. The underfur traps air which insulates the tiger's body thereby keeping it warm.