CupTeaLuv?

you can almost see her lips moving “oil… can”…. j/k more like “oy just take the picture you chud!!”
(learned a new word from her today — “chud” — apparently it might be a pennsylvanian thing?….)

I mean really — who *wouldn’t* walk 2.3 miles for that face???
here’s another good one from a different angle — and apparently cleaner glass

Mom and I keep having this discussion — because it seems as though every time we go to the zoo, we have a unique encounter with these Amur Tigers. They are amazing creatures.
On Wednesday of this week, there was a video crew from a local television station doing some filming of the animals, presumably to tie into a story about the major golf tournament (the Memorial Tournament) which is currently going on here in Dublin.
This crew happened to be filming the tigers (I very nearly typed “the girls” because both tigers are female — we found out last week from one of the keepers that they are new roommates and they are still getting used to one another), and they were asking the zookeepers all kinds of questions. One of the tigers was lying down very much in the same position she is in my video of her — in the same spot even — on the far right hand side of the area in front of the glass. Because of the number of people and cameras etc., when Mom and I came in to see the tigers, we had to stand all the way to the left of this glass area — about as far away from the tiger as you could be. She lay there in all her glory while they filmed her, looking out over her domain. Then she turned her head towards me and I gave her a little wave of my hand — my hand was down near my waist — I didn’t want anyone else to really see me waving like a yahoo at a tiger.
Suddenly she stood and began to walk the length of the glass. Within about 8 strides, she was in front of me, and she began to rub her face on the glass right in front of me.
She paced back and forth a couple of times before lying back down in the same pose and position as before and as Mom and I walked away, Mom commented that her actions seemed to be very much intentional, as though she knew us and got up to come say hello.
Today we had much the same experience — she was walking towards us and she rubbed the glass right in front of us — but this time she paced and paced. The other tiger began to pace as well, going in the opposite direction — so that at one point, with my camera phone I snapped them both in the same frame. I will try and get these snapshots uploaded somehow.
They seem to be very used to one another now — we had difficulty telling them apart, whereas in prior days, the older tiger (it sounded like Kisa? — КИСКА the russian word for “kitty”) always looked a bit more haggard and was always breathing more heavily in her distress of being with another tiger. But today they seemed identical — and seemed to be completely at ease with one another, almost ignoring one another in fact.