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Tigers will move their ears around to display the white spots, particularly during aggressive encounters and between mothers and cubs. [99] They also use their tails to signal their mood. To show cordiality, the tail sticks up and sways slowly, while an apprehensive tiger lowers its tail or wags it side-to-side. When calm, the tail hangs low. [100]
The Chinese classic Book of Rites mentions the Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise (Dark Warrior), Azure Dragon, and White Tiger as heraldic animals on war flags; [3] they were the names of asterisms associated with the four cardinal directions: South, North, East, and West, respectively. [4]
The oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List , and the population is threatened by deforestation and conversion of habitat to agricultural land.
The next two Erya definitions of animal names are parallel with mo: han < *ɡˁam (甝) is a baihu < *bˁrakqʰˁraʔ (白虎, "white tiger"); shu < *Cə.liwk (虪) is a heihu < *m̥ˁəkqʰˁraʔ (黑虎, "black tiger"). Guo's commentary says the names referred to white-colored and black-colored tigers, not zoologically different animals.
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Deep in the frozen forests of Russia lives one of the world's rarest animals...the Siberian tiger. Only a handful of scientists have set eyes on it in the wild. An international team of scientists ...
The tiger is one of the animals displayed on the Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley civilisation. The tiger was the emblem of the Chola Dynasty and was depicted on coins, seals and banners. [ 25 ] The seals of several Chola copper coins show the tiger, the Pandyan emblem fish and the Chera emblem bow, indicating that the Cholas had achieved ...
The Bengal tiger's coat is yellow to light orange, with stripes ranging from dark brown to black; the belly and the interior parts of the limbs are white, and the tail is orange with black rings. The white tiger is a recessive mutant, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially in the former State of Rewa.