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Trip Dates: August 20-2 7. 2000
Price Includes-
Roundtrip airfare on Continental Airlines
Hotel - Vista Del Mar
Three days 2 tank boat dives at Aqua Safari
Unlimited Shore Diving
Flight Info: Depart Houston Intercontinental 9:30 a.m. / arrive Cozumel 1 1:39 a.m.
Depart Cozumel 1 2:2 0 p.m. / arrive Houston 2:3 9 p.m.
Non Diver Price - $ 635.00 Limited Space!
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NATION & WORLD
THE BATTALION
10 Indian Bengal tigers dead, cause unknown
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APrinceton
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Ten
Royal Bengal tigers died at an In
dian zoo and more are struggling
for life in a case that has baffled vet
erinarians, local media reported
yesterday.
The cause of the deaths was not im
mediately known.
Workers at Nandankanan Zoo said
the tigers had been suffering from jaun
dice and were given medication on
empty stomachs. Star News television
reported. The tigers were not fed on
Monday, a regular practice because the
zoo has been struggling to care for its
animals since a devastating cyclone hit
the poor state last year. Star News said.
Zoo officials were not available for
comment.
Some tigers lay dead in their con
crete enclosures. Zoo workers carried
dead tigers on poles through the com
pound to the post mortem area. There
were no doctors tending to the ill tigers,
the station said.
S.C. Sharma, a wildlife expert, told
Star TV that the tigers could be suffer
ing from a bacterial infection spread by
Tsetse flies. He said crowding at the zoo
could have resulted in poor hygiene,
which spreads the infection. Veterinari
ans reportedly were prescribing antibi
otics to the animals.
The Nandankanan Zoo, in
Bhubaneshwar, capital of Orissa state,
has India's largest collection of Royal
Bengal tigers and the world's largest
collection of white tigers, the United
News of India reported.
The zoo had 55 tigers until the first
one, a male named Sagar, died Tuesday
night. By Wednesday morning, nine
more were dead, UNI and Star News
reported.
The 10 dead animals were among 17
tigers vaccinated on Monday, UNI re
ported. The seven others remained in
critical condition Wednesday.
UNI said at least two of the dead
tigers were rare, white ones.
Tiger tragedy .
Preliminary autopsies indicate that
10 of 56 Royal Bengal tigers at the
Nanankanan Zoo in India died of
sleeping sickness, an illness spread
by tsetse flies. The zoo has India’s
largest collection of this endangered
species.
Royal Bengal tiger
Length: 8.8-10.2 feet (male)
7.8-9.4 feet (female)
Weight: 396-573 pounds (male)
287-353 pounds (female)
Population in India:
2,500 to 3,750
Population worldwide:
3,176 to 4,556
Longevity:
15 years (20 in captivity)
Range:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China,
India, Myanmar and Nepal
Source: World Wildlife Fund
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News in Brief
Bosnian Serb
denies allegation
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — In a
front-page admission of ''complicity"
in the slave trade. The Hartford Courant
acknowledged that it profited in the
1700s and 1800s by publishing scores
of ads for the sale of slaves and the re
capture of runaways.
Such advertisements were com
monplace in Northern newspapers
until the Civil War was under way,
but the newspaper said Tuesday it felt
compelled to apologize for that dark
chapter in its history as the nation's
longest continuously published daily.
"We are not proud of that part of
our history and apologize for any in
volvement by our predecessors at The
Courant in the terrible practice of buy
ing and selling human beings that
took place in previous centuries," said
Ken DeLisa, a spokesperson for the
newspaper.
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of the front page. The Courant noted
how it recently had published stories
examining how insurer Aetna Inc. had
apologized in March for having sold
policies to slave owners.
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