Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger — fire.

The tiger in Sumatra faces precarious prospects if its present distribution continues to be substantially reduced and populations become small, fragmented and isolated from one another.

In contrast to the tiger, these emperor penguin s show that teeth and claws are not necessary to be a carnivore.

However, the orange helmet with black tiger stripes continued to be the team's primary trademark.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

Another tale says that Miaoshan never died, but was in fact transported by a supernatural tiger, believed to be the Deity of the Place, to Fragrant Mountain.

Even though the Red Army's 29 mechanized corps had no less than 29, 899 tanks on paper by 1941, they proved to be a paper tiger.

If a tiger were to be shaved, its distinctive camouflage pattern would be preserved.

Tigresses are smaller than the males in each subspecies, although the size difference between male and female tigers tends to be more pronounced in the larger tiger subspecies, with males weighing up to 1. 7 times more than the females.

The tiger shark must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting to support its varied diet, whereas the porbeagle shark, which hunts schooling fish such as mackerel and herring, has a large lower lobe to help it keep pace with its fast-swimming prey.

However, it is believed instead to be derived from an Indo-Iranian word meaning " white-yellow, pale "; in Sanskrit, this word's reflex was प ा ण ् डर pāṇḍara, which was derived from प ु ण ् डर ी क puṇḍárīka ( tiger, among other things ), then borrowed into Greek.

If someone were to say that a tiger is an omnivorous animal in one context and a mammal in another, the definition of tiger would still be the same.

We know, for example, that the Malagasy myth of the ogre Trimo be – " eater of children " is a story brought by the Austronesians and in fact is about the tiger ( from * ( t ) rimau, " tiger " in Proto-MP ) who lives in the forests of the Sunda Islands.

For example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being neither a tiger nor a smith.

It was believed that if " the tiger " as well as Foch and Pétain stayed in power, for even another week, France would be lost.

* Alphesiboea, an Indian nymph, who was passionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this circumstance received the name of Tigris.

On September 21, 2012, a man, David Villalobos, 25, jumped off a monorail train ( he was not strapped in, and cleared the 16-foot-high perimeter fence around the area ) into the tiger exhibit and was mauled by a male 11-year-old Siberian ( Amur ) tiger named Bashuta, who has been in residence at the Zoo for three years and will not be euthanized as a result of the incident, since it was clearly provoked and there was not a fatality.

He is in stable condition at an area hospital, and will likely be arrested for trespassing ( it was initially thought before an interview that it was a possible suicide attempt ; Villalobos, who had petted the 400-pound animal, wanted to be " one with the tiger ").

Supposedly the first person to be killed by a tiger in England, Hannah Twynnoy, is buried in the churchyard.

However, as stated by some Zakaria-ismail ( 1993 ), “ from my ongoing osteological studies that have been classified under Puntius, the genus Barbodes cannot be properly defined .” Today, we are left with three generic classifications, Barbodes, Capoeta, and Puntius, all of which appear in the literature when referring to tiger barbs and other barb species.

DNA evidence shows the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, and clouded leopard share a common ancestor, and that this group is between six and ten million years old ; the fossil record points to the emergence of Panthera just two to 3. 8 million years ago.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

There were six steps to the throne, on which animals, all of gold, were arranged in the following order: on the first step a lion opposite an ox ; on the second, a wolf opposite a sheep ; on the third, a tiger opposite a camel ; on the fourth, an eagle opposite a peacock, on the fifth, a cat opposite a cock ; on the sixth, a sparrow-hawk opposite a dove.

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

A predator at the top of any food chain ( that is, one that is preyed upon by no organism ) is called an apex predator ; examples include the orca, sperm whale, anaconda, Komodo dragon, tiger, lion, tiger shark, Nile crocodile, and most eagles -- and even omnivorous humans and grizzly bears.

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has its Bhutanese headquarters here ; it has been responsible for facilitating tiger conservation in Bhutan.

These are the joints ; as to the nine resemblances, they are the following: his horns resemble those of a stag, his head that of a camel, his eyes those of a demon, his neck that of a snake, his belly that of a clam ( shen, 蜃 ), his scales those of a carp, his claws those of an eagle, his soles those of a tiger, his ears those of a cow.

Some of Java endemic species are critically endangered, some even already extinct ; Java used to have its own endemic tiger subspecies that extinct in mid-1970s.

Their life was taken up with tiger hunts in India: they both became good shots, killing stags, elephants, and antelopes.

The tiger muskie has some of the characteristics of both of these fish.

The anti-poaching task force Inspection Tiger investigated both deaths, tracked down and killed the tiger.

It was successfully tranquilized and taken for examination, which revealed that the tiger was anemic and gravely injured by a poacher ’ s snare around its neck, with the steel wire cutting deeply down to the vertebrae, severing both trachea and esophagus.

Subsequent investigation of the first attack revealed that the first victim was a poacher who set multiple snares that caught both the tiger and a deer.

* Bronze Tiger is part of wave 18 of DC Universe Classics in 2011, including both his human and tiger mask heads.

The firm won the Oklahoma gasoline account ( later Esso, today ExxonMobil ) after research indicated that American drivers wanted both power and play, and copywriter Sandy Sulcer working with psychologist Ernest Dichter chose the tiger to symbolize that desire which led to the campaign Put a Tiger in Your Tank.

The tiger was also a deity for both the Tungus and the Black Pottery people ( Waterbury 1952, p. 80 ).

* Tiger orchid, not to be confused with Rossioglossum grande or Maxillaria species, both are also called tiger orchid.

Whilst out hunting he was attacked by a wounded tiger – it was shot in the nick of time by his companion – and rode a giraffe belonging to a friendly Indian prince to win a bet with a brother officer-he stayed on long enough to win the bet, but was trampled badly, its rear hoof breaking through both cheeks and crushing his nose.

He appeared in the Tar Swamps, where he found a young Prince Adam and his pet, Cringer, at the time a tiger cub, and saved them both from dying in the tar.

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with introductions to little-known parts of the world such as Sumatra, Bhutan and Ussuriland, its ear for dialogue, the quality of nature writing, and portrait of both the tiger and the field-zoologist.

The style of both shell and workings, and analysis of the metal content of the original brass pipes of the organ ( many have been replaced ), indicates that the tiger was of local manufacture.

It is an ingeniously conceived and cleverly told story that Miss Ryan writes of the days when the Spaniard was riding, an arrogant conqueror, over the mountains and across the deserts of Mexico ; when the tiger claws of the Inquisition were reaching out for victims and the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest were rising in rebellion against both the religion and the rule of their conquerors.

When their descendants are mated together, the golden tiger color is passed on to the offspring if both parents are gene carriers.

The first golden tiger cub born in captivity was in 1983 and this came from standard-colored Bengal tigers, both of whom carried the recessive genes for both the golden tiger and white colors.

The golden tabby tiger and the white tiger could therefore be regarded as human-perpetuated " breeds ", however, some zoos and wildlife parks refer to both golden tigers and white tigers as endangered.