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  Tiger -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
Tiger habitat varies widely, from tropical rainforests to snow-covered coniferous and deciduous forests and from mangrove swamps to drier forests.
Tiger prey consists mostly of pigs, deer, antelope, buffalo and other large mammals, although tigers have been known to hunt smaller mammals and birds.
Tigers are solitary hunters that stalk and attack from ambush.
www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/tiger.html   (284 words)

  
 The Balinese Tiger
As early as the mid-1930s most Balinese tigers were museum or trophy specimens.
Between the two World Wars the Balinese tiger was hunted indiscriminately and by the end of World War II the subspecies is thought to have disappeared altogether.
Tigers require large territories and the island of Bali is so small it could never have supported a large population.
www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/bali.html   (601 words)

  
 Tiger
White tigers have been seen in the wild in India, and 1 single white cub taken by the name of Mohan was the progenitor of most white tigers now in captivity.
Smaller animals are often killed with the bite to the nape of the neck allowing the tiger to to fracture the vertebrae and compress the spinal chord of its victim.
Tiger numbers in the wild are thought to have plunged from 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to between 5000 and 7000 today.
www.bigcatrescue.org /tiger.htm   (1820 words)

  
 The Sumatran Tiger Trust - Information on the Sumatran Tiger
Sumatran tigers are distinctive for being the only subspecies to live in isolation on a large island they have been isolated from their cousins on mainland Asia for over 10,000 years; this happened after a rise in sea level.
Tigers live in Asia, primarily in forests the Sumatran tiger is found throughout Sumatra in habitat that ranges from lowland forest to sub-montain and montain forest with some peat-moss forest.
Tigers are also found outside the network of protected areas, especially in rubber plantations where many of the attacks on man and livestock have been reported.
www.tigertrust.info /sumatrantiger   (1875 words)

  
 Lioncrusher's Domain -- Tiger (Panthera tigris) facts and pictures
Tigers are the largest of a group of cats known as the great cats (tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars) Great cats are distinguished from the other cats by their ability to roar.
Tigers have a ground coloration ranging from a rusty orange to yellow orange color, with its underbody and face being creamy to white, and are flanked by large vertical stripes.
Tigers are excellent swimmers, and tend to spend a lot of time in the water, especially during the summer when temperatures can get very hot.
www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=71   (3334 words)

  
 TRAFFIC: KILLED FOR A CURE: A Review of the Worldwide Trade in Tiger Bone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tiger bone is used in Vietnam in a balm to alleviate rheumatism and general weakness.
Tiger bone is most commonly used to treat rheumatism, but other indications are weakness and stiffness or paralysis, especially in the lower back and legs.
If wild Tigers are to survive the commercial demand for their bones, the question of how to meet the medicinal demands of Asian people dedicated to the use of Tiger bone medicine cannot be ignored.
www.traffic.org /publications/summaries/summary-tigerbone.html   (2149 words)

  
 Tiger
Tigers were so plentiful, fertile and ferocious that nobody suspected they could actually be driven to the brink of extinction.
The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India, while the Sumatran tiger is restricted to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The tiger is found in a variety of habitats: from the tropical evergreen and deciduous forests of southern Asia to the coniferous, scrub oak and birch woodlands of Siberia.
www.uwm.edu /People/clschulz   (1161 words)

  
 Tiger
Less than a century ago, the Tiger occupied a range extending from eastern Turkey and the southern fringes of the Caspian Sea eastward across Central Asia to the Sea of Okhotsk, and south through the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali.
Tigers are found in the coniferous forests and winter snows of Siberia; the oak forests of northeast China; grasslands and monsoon, bamboo, and mangrove forests; in India and Bangladesh; and tropical jungles in Malaysia, Thailand, and other - countries of Southeast Asia.
Tigers usually avoid humans, but may kill if taken by surprise when resting, or when a tigress is defending her cubs.
www.msu.edu /~junus/melsa/kerabat/05199802.html   (708 words)

  
 Tiger
The tiger is also affected by cultural factors, many nations revere the tiger as a magnificent symbol, others regard it as a source of potent medicine.
Basic tiger protection is inadequately funded and management is hampered by the lack of basic biological data on the populations.
Eradicating the deeply held beliefs of the Chinese is vital to ensure the long-term survival of the tiger.
www.catsurvivaltrust.org /tiger.htm   (3533 words)

  
 Tigers
Many scientists fear that the extinction of the Sumatran tiger may be imminent due to the limited genetic diversity of this small population of tigers.
Bali and Java are brothers that were born May 22,1998, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
No, the white tiger is a Bengal mutation that does occur naturally, but has been specifically bred in zoos as well...the Sumatran is highly endangered and is very carefully monitored as to breeding, etc, so breeding for a specific mutation would be very detrimental to the gene pool.
www.tefelske.com /tigers.htm   (1637 words)

  
 CSG Species Accounts: Tiger (Panther tigris)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Herrington (1987) was able to distinguish six subspecies reliably based on skull measurements (no Caspian or Bali tigers were analyzed), although she noted that there was considerable overlap of tigris and corbetti, and some overlap of corbetti and sumatrae.
Tiger subspecies are now being re-evaluated using the latest techniques of molecular analysis, with samples being collected from wild tigers in the Russian Far East and India, and from captive Sumatran and South China tigers of known origin and blood-line (S.
Herrington (1987) concurs that the South China tiger may be regarded as a relict population of the “stem” tiger, living in the probable area of origin of the species.
lynx.uio.no /lynx/catsgportal/cat-website/catfolk/tiger-02.htm   (377 words)

  
 The Bali Tiger - Panthera tigris balica
The Bali tiger was the smallest of the eight subspecies of tigers.
The last Bali tiger to be shot was believed to be a female in 1925.
The Bali tiger were extinct around the end of 1937.
www.tigerhomes.org /animal/curriculums/bali-tiger-pc.cfm   (241 words)

  
 Tiger Trade from India
According to the World Wildlife Fund, tigers are hunted primarily for the use of their body parts in Chinese medicines, and to a lesser extent for souvenirs such as skins and mounted heads.
Tiger whiskers are used as a charm of protection and courage, and the tiger brain is used as a treatment for acne.
The bones of the tiger are used for ulcers and burns and the whiskers are used for toothaches.
gurukul.ucc.american.edu /ted/TIGERIND.htm   (5076 words)

  
 Animal Info - Tiger
The extirpation of tigers on Bali and Java was attributed to extensive habitat fragmentation, widespread loss of critical ungulate prey through disease, and direct mortality by man, partly as a result of civil unrest in the 1960's (armed groups seeking the sanctuary provided by tiger reserves killed the tigers)
The main habitat requirements of the tiger are dense vegetative cover, an adequate supply of large ungulate prey (principally deer and wild pigs), and access to a reliable source of water.
Male and female tigers leave scent marks such as urine sprayed on bushes and trees, feces left in prominent places, scratch marks on trees, and scrapes on the ground to show that their territory is occupied.
www.animalinfo.org /species/carnivor/panttigr.htm   (3321 words)

  
 Balinese Tiger Reserves and National Parks in detail. Bali Barat National Park.
Bali is a tiny island, and of the eight subspecies of tiger the Balinese started out with the smallest available space.
West Bali is an isolated area with a low rainfall and little access to water supplies.
The Bali tiger had already vanished prior to the creation of Bali Barat National Park, by the Dutch in 1941.
www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/balibarat.html   (602 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tigers must also face the threat of man. It is estimated that at least one tiger is killed per day.
Tigers live in highly vegetative areas so if one is killed or dies it is hard to determine if it is a tiger or not.
The Siberian tiger was the forerunner for zoo conservation.
www.unk.edu /acad/biology/eichhorst/VNH/gitschel/tigers_of_the_snow.html   (1030 words)

  
 Peter's Homepage - Extinct animals - Bali tiger
The Bali Tiger was the smallest subspecies of the tiger (Panthera tigris).
The Bali Tiger is apart from its small size, very similar to the Javan subspecies (also extinct), with the same dense pattern of stripes, but perhaps a shade darker.
The Bali Tiger was the first subspecies of the Tiger to become extinct.
home.conceptsfa.nl /~pmaas/balitiger.htm   (265 words)

  
 The White Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You've all seen pictures of white tigers by this point, but you might not know the story of where these cats came from or how they got to be on the wall of every frame shop/print gallery that you walk in to...
This is made worse by the fact that, in the rush to produce more white tigers, not much attention was paid to the lineage of the other animals being bred into the line.
I think the white tiger is possibly the most beautiful animal on earth, but we have plenty of them now...They are pseudo-domestic animals totally unsuited for life in the wild...and if there are only 50 Chinese Tigers left...I'd rather someone spend MY zoo admission on THEM.
users.aristotle.net /~swarmack/tiger.html   (841 words)

  
 The West Jembrana - Indo-holidays.com
A virgin forest, lair of the ferocious Bali tiger and haunt of highway robbers, stretching from rugged mountain chain to ragged coast this was Jim bar Wana, the "Great Forest" of the west, known today as Jembrana.
The Bali Strait bordering Jembrana is notoriously treacherous, and because the Balinese are wary of the sea anyway, parts of the coast were settled by sailors, fishermen and merchants from Java, Madura and Sulawesi.
The Bali tiger was last sighted in the 1930s, and the remaining wilds of Jimbar Wana have been incorporated into the Bali Barat National Park.
www.indo-holidays.com /bali_guide/jembrana/index_indo.htm   (722 words)

  
 Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Bali Tiger
The Bali tiger was the smallest subspecies of the tiger Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758).
The Bali tiger had a short, dense fur that was of a deep orange colour and carried darker and fewer stripes than the other tiger subspecies.
The six remaining tiger subspecies are the Bengal tiger Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758), Siberian (Amur) tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Temminck, 1844), Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae Pocock, 1829, Indo-Chinese tiger Panthera tigris corbetti Mazak, 1968, South China tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905), and the Malayan tiger Panthera tigris jacksoni.
www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/balitiger.htm   (919 words)

  
 Tiger -- Defenders of Wildlife
Tigers have a long thick reddish-ochre coat with a white belly and white and fl tail (although the colors of different subspecies may vary).
Tigers are solitary hunters who stalk and attack from ambush, their stripes providing excellent camouflage by breaking up the outline of their bodies when hidden in tall grasses.
Tigers are hunted, trapped, and poisoned for trophies, as threats to livestock, and because their body parts are used in Asian medicines.
www.petsandvets.com /tiger.htm   (584 words)

  
 tiger - Wiktionary
A large carnivorous animal (Panthera tigris) of the cat family indigenous to Asia.
News, research, a kid's section, and a live tiger cub cam feed...
tiger c (pl tigrar, def sing tigern, def pl tigrarna)
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Tiger   (166 words)

  
 Ecobeetle's Endangered Species-Tiger-Information,Pictures,Conservation,Facts,Links
Three subspecies of tiger, the Bali, Caspian and Javan, have gone extinct in the 20th century.
Panthera tigris tigris the most commonly known of all tigers and can be found in a variety of habitats in including lush forests, swamps and high altitudes of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Their wild population is approximately 3,000 to 4,750 tigers.
The South China tiger is the smallest of the tigers at 150 kilos.
www.ecobeetle.com /tiger.htm   (471 words)

  
 5 TIGERS : All About Tigers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Three tiger subspecies are considered to have become extinct in the past 70 years, the Caspian tiger, the Javan tiger and the Bali tiger.
David Prynn, author of Amur Tiger, contributed his article "The Caspian tiger: a Lesson from History," originally published in the Marwell Zoo News (Summer 2003, No. 116, pages 10-11).
One photo of a dead Bali tiger was taken in 1925.
www.savethetigerfund.org /AllAboutTigers/Subspecies/extinct.htm   (151 words)

  
 Extinct Tigers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Caspian tiger once ranged in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia and probably went extinct in the 1950s.
The Javan tiger ranged on the Indonesian island of Java and was last seen in 1972.
The Bali tiger once lived in Bali, where the last tiger was believed to have been killed in 1937.
www.scu.edu.au /schools/edu/student_pages/xmas_2002/mdavidson&kboran/Extinct.html   (93 words)

  
 Tiger Heaven
Tiger Heaven is an online tiger group dedicated to the beautiful Tigers of the world, created in November 2002 to show my love for the majestic Tigers, as well as to educate the public about their plight, and to bring wildlife lovers from around the world together to talk about this amazing creature.
The Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, South Chinese, and Indo-Chinese Tigers are on the brink of extinction due to poaching, illegal trade, and habitat loss.
There were once 8 sub-species of the Tiger, three of which have been wiped out in the past 100 years.
groups.msn.com /TigerHeaven   (274 words)

  
 101 Tiger Facts
Wild tigers are at the very top of the food chain.
Unlike the domestic cat the tigers pupils are round.
The tiger is the third animal in the Chinese zodiac.
www.andymcdermott.com /tiger_facts.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Tigers - Extinct Tigers
There are three subspecies of tiger that are believed to have become extinct during the last 70 years these are:
Once lived on Bali, where the last tiger was believed to have been killed in 1937.
As far as we know, no photos of a live Bali tiger exist.
www.wildtigers.bravehost.com /extinct.html   (93 words)

  
 Greeniz Home of the Tiger
Tigers have always been a passion of mine, so building a website honoring the tiger came naturally.
I have yet to find a true picture of a Bali Tiger, but that sub-species is gone as well.
In my Gallery link, there is a NEW gallery of all original pictures of the Bengal Tigers from Tiger Island in Australia.
www.geocities.com /RainForest/Andes/6816   (283 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tracks of the Tiger: G-land & Bali, Indonesia: Books: Tony Garcia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The paradise island is still reeling from the after-shock of the Bali bombings.
Bobby is again confronted with a violent past he tried long to forget as he faces a life-and-death struggle amid the jungle and sun-kissed beaches of Indonesia.
The tourists may have fled the island because of the terrorism threat, but the surfers stayed on chasing the surf at G- land, a legendary surf break in East Java (`G-land was a world class surf spot').
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0976067900?v=glance   (727 words)

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