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The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
Shere Khan (/ ˈ ʃ ɪər ˈ k ɑː n /) is a fictional Bengal tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations. He is often portrayed as the main antagonist, itself an exaggeration of his role in the original stories, in which he only appears a third of the time. [1] Shere Khan is named after Afghan Emperor Sher Shah Suri. [2]
Bengal tiger formerly P. t. tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] This population inhabits the Indian subcontinent. [17] The Bengal tiger has shorter fur than tigers further north, [8] with a light tawny to orange-red colouration, [8] [18] and relatively long and narrow nostrils. [19] † Caspian tiger formerly P. t. virgata (Illiger, 1815) [20]
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The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. [3] [4] In Korean mythology and culture, the tiger is regarded as a guardian that drives away evil spirits and a sacred creature that brings good luck – the symbol of courage and absolute power. For the ...
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Historical tiger hunting in India, c. 1821.. Historically, tigers have been hunted on foot, horseback, elephant-back, and from machans.Any of these involved considerable danger and the hunting of a tiger had been considered a manly and a courageous feat with game, trophies being collected as the symbols of valor and prestige.
A tiger tail is the tail of a tiger. Tiger tail may also refer to: Tiger Tail (19th century), Seminole leader; Tiger Tail (play), a 1970 stage play by Tennessee Williams based on his screenplay for Baby Doll; Tiger tail banding of hair, a symptom of trichothiodystrophy; Tiger tail donut, a donut that is twisted with another ingredient so that ...