Sumatran Tigers and Elementary's An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains

Summary: The smallest of captive Sumatran tigers worldwide is perhaps an illegal exotic pet on Elementary's An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains April 30, 2018.

Adult Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) with cub; Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, southeastern Australia; Feb. 24, 2007: Ghouston, Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons

One of the world's captive Sumatran tigers perhaps assumes conversational aspects as an illegal exotic pet in the Elementary procedural drama series episode An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains April 30, 2018.

Director Christine Moore and writers Robert Doherty, Bob Goodman and Kelly Wheeler begin the sixth season's first episode, 121st series episode overall, with a missing person. Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) continues to comport himself unpredictably since Shinwell Johnson's (Nelsan Ellis) backstabbing by Laquan 'Tall Boy' Eversley (Ruffin Prentiss) May 7, 2017. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) divulges outside the 11th Police Precinct conference room that "Well, he didn't come home last night and he hasn't returned my calls."

Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) envisions as an explanation that "Maybe he met someone. Or, knowing him, someone, her two friends and their pet tiger."

Sherlock previously furnishes the fact that "My mother's (Joanna Christie) ghost recently set a room on fire, so I've been doing most of my thinking elsewhere."

Buying, importing, owning, selling, transporting tigers goes against New York endangered species legislation unless commissioners gauge their generating "zoological, educational, and scientific purposes" and "preservation purposes." New York laws herd all tigers under "Panthera tigres [sic]" even though Sumatran tigers presumably head exotic pet lists as smallest of insular and mainland populations. Year-round breedability inspires mating activities that increase Sumatran tiger populations between November and April, especially during rain-filled October through January northward and November through February southward.

Physically and sexually mature three- to four-plus-year-old female Sumatran tigers juggle one to six 27.51- to 52.91-ounce (780- to 1,500-gram) cubs after 100- to 108-day gestations.

Sumatran tiger cubs know 15- to 20-minute births, six- to 14-day blindness, nine- to 11-day deafness and 90- to 100-day nursings despite solid-food tolerances as 60-day-olds.

Five- to 18-month-old cubs learn hunting banded pigs, great argus pheasants, greater and lesser mouse-deer, Malayan porcupines, Malayan tapirs, muntjacs (barking deer) and pig-tailed macaque monkeys. Eighteen-plus-month-old male Sumatran tigers move to neighboring home ranges that maximize at 19-plus square miles (50-plus square kilometers) for physically and sexually mature four- to five-year-olds. Sumatran tigers, noted scientifically in 1929 by Reginald Pocock (March 4, 1863-Aug. 9, 1947), need 10.43-square-mile (27-square-kilometer) ranges for mature females with cubs and juvenile females.

Sumatran tigers, organized scientifically as Panthera tigris sumatrae (Sumatran tiger panther) and since 2017 under Panthera tigris sondaica (Sunda [Islands] tiger panther), observe extended family socializations.

Sumatran tiger adults, cubs and juveniles perform group resting, shading, socializing, swimming and traveling up through 10,498.69-foot (3,200-meter) dense-canopied, dense-understoried, steep-sloped, swampy altitudes above sea level.

Females queue up 10.35- to 11.58-inch (26.3- to 29.4-centimeter) skull, 7.05- to 7.4-foot (2.15- to 2.3-meter) head-body and 3.28-foot (1-meter) tail lengths during 15-plus-year life expectancies. Males reveal 11.61- to 13.19-inch (29.5- to 33.5-centimeter) skull, 7.22- to 8.37-foot (2.2- to 2.55-meter) head-body and 3.28-foot (1-meter) tail lengths and 2.42-plus-foot (0.74-plus-meter) shoulder heights. Ruff-necked, 220.46- to 308.65-pound (100- to 140-kilogram) males and 165.35- to 242.51-pound (75- to 110-kilogram) females sustain broad-striped, yellow-brown bodies; spotted rears; spotted, striped hind legs.

City life with Sherlock's friends perhaps threaten bearded, maned Sumatran tigers somewhat less than acacia, coffee, oil palm and rubber planters, agro-industrialists, herbalists, loggers and poachers.

While Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) struggles with PCS (post-concussion syndrome), not "someone, her two friends and their pet tiger," as Detective Bell quips, he unknowingly revitalizes serial killer Michael Rowan's (Desmond Harrington) serial pastime in Elementary tv series' An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains (season 6 episode 1): CBS Elementary episode 6.01 promotional photo via SpoilerTV April 26, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Adult Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) with cub; Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, southeastern Australia; Feb. 24, 2007: Ghouston, Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panthera-tigris-sumatrae-20070224-057.jpg

While Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) struggles with PCS (post-concussion syndrome), not "someone, her two friends and their pet tiger," as Detective Bell quips, he unknowingly revitalizes serial killer Michael Rowan's (Desmond Harrington) serial pastime in Elementary tv series' An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains (season 6 episode 1): CBS Elementary episode 6.01 promotional photo via SpoilerTV April 26, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/04/elementary-episode-601-infinite.html

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