Now the Chinese are stealing even nature's intellectual property! A Chinese farmer named Zhou Zhenglong got scientists all excited by showing off pictures he claims he snapped of a wild South China tiger, thought to be extinct. But then another man noticed that one of the pictures matched stripe-for-stripe the tiger on his WALL CALENDAR. ("Extinct" tiger on right, calendar photo on left.)
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Seems like pretty good Photoshop work for a farmer. The Chinese government must certainly be upset it turned out to be a fraud, this picture could help to foster an image of China as an ecological haven for "extinct" animals instead of a cesspool of industrial waste as the West frequently believes. Not that I'd suggest that the picture was actually a Party creation to alleviate environmental concerns, there's no real evidence of that...
Have you do some research about this news? The government's attitude about this picture is negetive. Since this picture is not that easy to tell. The government at first time refuse to declare that the picture can prove there still have such kind of tigers exit. They organized some experts to find it out. What the farmer did is just individual things. Why some people always relate everything to the chinese government? Crazy people live everywhere. The animal extinction issue is universal.
okay... here's the deal...
1) The tiger in the "fake" is out of focus with the leaves at the same focal depth.
2) the lighting is not right either. The tiger has a cool shadow thing going on but the color outside is clearly very bright sunlight.
3) When you take the calendar image and rotate it counterclockwise slightly then scale it up a little you can actually overlay it directly on the tiger-in-woods picture and see that it is in fact the same stripe pattern.
This guy really should have used an obscure photo of the tiger. Its incredible tha the infamous loch-ness photo could have people convinced for decades that there was really a prehistoric monster in a scottish lake, until the photographer died and confessed it was a hoax but this guy couldn't even make a convincing tiger in the forest with the aid of digital photography and photo editing software. The weekly world news could have even done a better job then this.
-Matt matthewroy.com
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA..yeah im bored...so what anyways...i think its like as fake as britney spears hair!
this tiger is as fake as britney spears' HAIR!!!...BWAHAHAHAHAH IM BORED....wut r u gonna do about it???!!
..."the" Chinese are stealing?!
C'mon Mike, you can do better than that!
You're turning into (or maybe you were born as) an Apple bashing, China bashing curmudgeon.
This "Tiger Zhou" issue is challenging the Chinese government's accident dealing ability. Coz it was one of ShanXi province's officer, Mr. GuanKe, said that if the pictures were not ture, he would resign.
We all know the Chinese government were not honest during the past 50 years, they are not used to tell the truth to the Chinese commen people, and still no apologize comes from the goverment for the past so many lies.
Today, when facing an obivous fake China Tiger picture, the officer of Chinese government still dare to lie, it makes all the Chinese people have to ask one question, is their government worthy of being trust??
How do you know the photo is fake? In fact in China two groups of people hold two opposite opinion. The fact is that the analysis supporting the photo is more rational.
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