Maximum card: brown bear (Ursus arctos) - Romania

Romania has all the Top 10 [Eurasian] brown bear fur trophies in the world, according to http://evz.ro.

Now, from wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_in_Romania:

"Romania has a long history of hunting. The country remains a remarcable hunting destination, drawing many hunters because of its large numbers of brown bears, wolves, wild boars, red deer, and chamois. The concentration of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the Carpathian Mountains of central Romania is [the] largest in the world and contains half of all Europe's population, except Russia.^[1]"

"World's foremost trophy record book of Rowland Ward mentions Romanian lands as provider of world records for stag (by local and foreign sportsmen), chamois (by Frederick Selous) and Eurasian Lynx (by the Prince of Liechtenstein)."

"Bear hunting (vanatoare de urs). Romania has the highest number and density of brown bears in entire Europe, second only to Russia and is one of the only few countries to allow its hunting. The population is so large, that many bruins are encountered in suburban areas feeding of waste, yet the big ones are to be encountered solitary in the sub-alpine forests. According to CIC, the world record Eurasian brown bear trophy skin (687.79 CIC points) was shot in Romania in 1985, and for the skull trophy, Romania has 2nd place (69.30 points), while 1st place (70.0 CIC points) was shot in Kamchatka, Russia. Around 250 permits are issued yearly for two bear hunts: fall season (Sep. 15 - Dec. 31) and spring season (Mar. 15 - May 15). Methods used are spot and stalk, waiting, game drives and under special permit, over bait; anything else, like trapping, shooting from blinds or elevated stand or use of archery are illegal. Recommended are large caliber rifle magnums, with a 7x64 mm minimum necessary. Good populations are in Gurghiu, Vrancea, Fagaras and south-east Carpathians. In Romanian cynegetical tradition, bear baculum is regarded as unconventional trophy."

Word of the day: baculum. You don't have the foggiest idea what it means? Click on it. Wikipedia will tell you.

Maximum card from China: Siberian (not South China) tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)

Siberian (not South China) tigers maximum cards from China.
I like very much these maximum cards, 
especially the bottom one :) .
It just so happens that each of them was created with a real, commercial postcard.
Would it bother me if this "postcard" were, instead, a cut-out from a folded postcard ("greeting 
card"), book, magazine, or calendar?
No. Not at all.

Maximum card: gray wolves (USA)

They say Homo...homini...lupus. [No, it's not about gays.]

But wolves were wolves (not werewolves) to wolves?

Or rather wolves are brothers (or enemies) to other wolves, as needed.

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ALPHA MALE: For now, lay your troubles on my shoulders, brother. Your head, too.

But remember: I am the Alpha Male, until proven otherwise.

BETA MALE: That day will come... Enjoy while you can!

ALPHA MALE: I heard that there is a gorgeous She-Wolf in Italy, called Lupa Capitolina. She adopted two human puppies, Romulus and Remus.

BETA MALE: Well, I heard there's another great one, in the Hollywood Wilderness: Lupa Angelina. She adopted many more humans.

ALPHA MALE: Yeah, she would be a great ALPHA FEMALE in our wolfpack, but I hear that she is involved with a Hill Billy Bob Cat...no, with a Great Dane Cook...no, with an Inverted Jenny (no, that's a rare stamp)...no! With a glorious non-basterd (purebred) American Pitt Bull, a cum laude braduate of The Fight Club Chez Vicks.  Lupa Angelina is "out of our forest". Furrrrr-getaboutit!