The Bengal tiger is the national symbol of India and an endangered species around the world.
Among the 40 choices are a Bengal tiger, lion, panther, cheetah or leopard cub.
Here are five reasons why it needs as much protection as a baby polar bear, a Bengal Tiger, or an ancient monument.
But the most glaring problem facing any aspiring filmmaker would have to be Richard Parker, the full-grown 450-pound Bengal tiger who shares the lifeboat with Pi.
Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.
Aside from best director, the 3D film - based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger - won awards for cinematography, score and visual effects.
Joseph's other credits include the fine off-Broadway "Gruesome Playground Injuries, " which tells a love story through lovers' scars, and Broadway's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, " a Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama about the Iraq war starring Robin Williams.
And the various trades in movie land from the production designers to the boom operators were likely jazzed by "Pi's" technological achievements, notably the digitally enhanced Bengal tiger that even the movie's harsher critics believed to have stolen the movie from its human actors.
McLane's other credits include the recent revival of "The Heiress" with Jessica Chastain, the current "Nice Work If You Can Get It" with Matthew Broderick, the last revivals of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" and "Follies, " the show "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" with Robin Williams, and the Tony winning revival of "Anything Goes, " which is currently on a national tour.
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