Tiger story

well, it's just a story from my personal life. I live in Borneo island. Some people said that there are no tiger live in this island. well, some of the indonesian people, especially the elders said that. i'm not pretty sure about it. Is it real or not. but, my grand-father said he does saw a tiger when he was hunting. the story is like this, one day, my grandfather goes hunting with their friends. they hunt in borneo forest. some elders also said that there are something mystic in the forest. but my grandfather doesn't care about it.

they walk trough the forest, try to find something to hunt. After few hours walk and they didn't caught anything, my father and his friend hear a very unexpected thing. They heard a roar of tiger. it's a very powerfull roar. it makes you like shaking because of fear. that roar makes one of my grandfather friend passed out. Because one of the elders come hunting with my grandfather, he says "this is impossible. There are no tiger in the forest. or could it be?" then my grandfather ask "could it be what?" and the elder answer "it could be not a tiger, but a demon that transformed into tiger"

Tiger walk through the forest

my grandfather is very surprised about what the elder said. "there are no such things as demon" said my grandpa. "yes, there are. a demon that transformed into tiger, are commonly apear in the village near this forest. and when the tiger came there, it always eat a plenty of human. and no one can stop a rampaging tiger demon. People believe that the difference between the demon tiger and a normal tiger is in their eyes. demon tiger eyes are red. while the normal tiger are yellow." said the elder.

because of an unusual fear felt by the other hunters, they decided to came back to their house. my grandfather want to hunt that tiger, but, the elder stop him. "if you planning to kill the demon tiger, it's useless. no one can kill demon tiger" said elder. but my grandpa still want to go. and the elder force him to not hunt the tiger. "are you sure it's a demon tiger?" ask my grandfather. "i'm not pretty sure, but, just don't take any risk" said the elder. finally, my grandfather decided not to hunt the tiger, and the mystery about 'is there are tiger in borneo' remain as a mystery until now.

Golden Tabby Tiger

Golden Tabby Tiger

Well, now, it's about the Golden Tabby!!!

Golden Tabby tiger also called Strawberry tiger. While no official name has been designated for the color, it is sometimes referred to as the strawberry tiger due to the strawberry blonde coloration. The golden tiger's white coat and gold patches make it stand out from the norm. Their striping is much paler than usual and may fade into spots or large prominent patches. Golden tigers also tend to be larger and, due to the effect of the gene on the hair shaft, have softer fur than their orange relatives.

Like their white cousins, all golden tabby tigers have mainly Bengal parentage, but are genetically polluted with the genes of the Amur tiger via a part-Amur white tiger called Tony, who is a common ancestor of almost all white tigers in North America. The suggestion that this coloration is caused through the deliberate breeding of Amur tigers with Bengal tigers is a popular myth founded on this fact. All golden tigers appear traceable to one of Tony's male descendants, Bhim.

Golden Tabby

Location: Very unlikely that this mutation would occur in the wild anymore, so the only ones living are believed to be in captivity

Habitat: Captivity

Diet: Carnivorous

Description: Pale orange-brown base colour with white underbelly, inner legs and patches to the face. All black markings and stripes are replaced by darker orange or brown and the fur is softer and thicker

Golden tabby

Facts: Golden Tigers almost all share the same ancestor, a tiger called Bhim who incidentally is the son of Tony (the ancestor to nearly all of North America's White Tigers). In the early 20th Century there were reports of wild Golden Tigers being shot in India. If normal orange tigers receives the recessive gene (the wide band gene) from each parent it will become a Tabby, if a White Tiger receives it from both parents they will become a Snow White Tiger. The Golden Tabby is due to inbreeding and gene pollution, it's scientific mutation is known as Erythrism.

Maltese Tiger

If there are White Tiger, there are also Maltese Tiger!

Maltese Tiger

The Maltese tiger, or blue tiger, is a semi-hypothetical coloration morph of a tiger, reported mostly in the Fujian Province of China. It is said to have bluish fur with dark grey stripes. Most of the Maltese tigers reported have been of the South Chinese subspecies. The South Chinese tiger today is critically endangered, and the "blue" alleles may be wholly extinct. Blue tigers have also been reported in Korea, home of Siberian tigers.

The term "Maltese" comes from domestic cat terminology for blue fur, and refers to the slate grey coloration. Many cats with such colouration are present in Malta, which may have given rise to the use of the adjective in this context.

Genetics

In support of the blue tiger theory, Maltese-colored cats certainly do exist. The most common are a domestic cat breed, the Russian Blue, and a variety of the British Shorthair, the British Blue, but blue bobcats and lynxes have also been recorded, and there are genetic mutations and combinations that result in bluish hue, or at least in the impression of a blue-gray animal. Shuker suggested that blue tigers possessed two different pairs of recessive alleles – the non-agouti (s/s), and the dilute (d/d)[3] which combine to produce a solid blue-gray colour as found in domestic cats such as the British Blue and Russian Blue, but would not produce the striped blue tigers reported.

Roar

White tigers are not albinos, as they retain their black stripes. Rather, the fur between the stripes lacks pheomelanin entirely. Simply combining non-agouti and dilute alleles would probably indeed result in a greyish or "maltese" tiger, but such an animal would have hardly-visible stripes or none at all: Normal tigers switch between agouti (orange) and non-agouti (black) in different areas of their pelage, as well as suppressing melanin production thoroughly (white).

The non-agouti mutation would produce animals similar to black panthers which have only a "ghost" pattern, all hair being black but the hairs of their rosettes retaining a different texture and thus, "black-on-black" rosettes are visible under appropriate lighting. Combined with all-dilute alleles, the color would be grey, but it would still result in an unstriped or ghost-striped tiger.

Relaxing

For a Maltese-and-striped fur, pheomelanin production must probably be suppressed (to switch from an orange to a greyish color) but agouti retained (to yield darker stripes); perhaps some hypermelanism would also be present, to produce an animal with a non-white belly as reported by Caldwell. Indeed, such a genotype is known in cheetahs, where it produces animals that are bluish gray with dark slate grey pattern. If factors such as lighting conditions are accounted for, this makes a reasonable match with Caldwell's individual.

Saber-tooth Tiger

Saber-tooth tiger

Saber tooth tigers lived many, many years ago back when the earth was trapped in an Ice Age.  At that time, woolly mammoths and mastodons roamed the icy land.  Smilodons, which were a type of saber tooth tiger, were a tiny bit smaller than the panthers that live today.  However, smilodons were heavier than panthers, weighing a whopping 440 lbs.  The smilodons were the biggest kind of saber tooth.  Saber tooths were very fierce predators.  The saber tooth tiger was about the size of the African lion.  Some saber tooth tigers grew up to 15 feet in length!

Saber-tooth tiger,,, and a mammoth!

Scientists say that saber tooth tigers probably ate mammoths, antelope, deer, and buffalo.  When they ate animals bigger than themselves, such as mammoths and buffalo, they would have had a big group of saber tooths, called a pack, kill the animal.  Scientists also think that some saber tooth tigers could have possibly lived in grassy or woody habitats, but others could have lived in icy lands.  Saber tooths lived in many places in Asia and Europe.  However, some saber tooth tiger remains have been found in the La Brea tar pits in California.  These bones are said to be over 10,000 years old.  Obviously, the saber tooth made its way to North America.



here are some Facts about Saber-tooth Tiger


1. The Saber-Tooth Tiger wasn't really a tiger...

All modern tigers are subspecies of Panthera tigris (for example, the Siberian Tiger is technically known as Panthera tigris altaica). What most people refer to as the Saber-Tooth Tiger was actually a genus of prehistoric cat known as Smilodon, which was only distantly related to modern lions, tigers and cheetahs.

Saber-tooth tiger skeleton

2. ...and it wasn't the only "saber-toothed" cat, either.

Although Smilodon is by far the most famous saber-toothed cat, it wasn't the only member of its fearsome breed: this family included over a dozen other genera, including Barbourofelis, Homotherium and Megantereon. Further complicating matters, paleontologists have also described "false" saber-toothed and "dirk-toothed" cats.

3. The Saber-Tooth Tiger comprised three distinct species.

The most obscure member of the Smilodon family was the small (only 150 pounds or so) Smilodon gracilis; the North American Smilodon fatalis was slightly bigger, and the South American Smilodon populator was the most imposing Saber-Tooth of them all, the males weighing as much as half a ton (in fact, Smilodon populator may have been the largest feline that ever lived). By the way, Smilodon fatalis regularly crossed paths with the Dire Wolf, Canis dirus; see this article for an analysis of this one-on-one battle!

4. The canines of the biggest Saber-Tooth Tigers were almost a foot long...

No one would be much interested in the Saber-Tooth Tiger if it were just an unusually big cat. What has made this megafauna mammal so fascinating to generations of schoolkids is its huge, curving canines, which measured close to 12 inches in the largest Smilodon species. Oddly enough, though, these monstrous teeth were surprisingly brittle and easily broken.

5. ...but their jaws were comparatively weak.

Saber-Tooth Tigers had almost comically large bites: these felines could open their jaws at a snake-worthy angle of 120 degrees, about twice as wide as a modern lion. Paradoxically, though, the various species of Smilodon didn't chomp down with much force, because they needed to protect their precious canines against accidental breakage.

Saber-tooth tiger (maybe) hunting

6. Saber-Tooth Tigers hunted in a characteristic way.

The large, brittle canines of the Saber-Tooth Tiger, combined with its weak jaws, point to a highly adapted hunting style. As far as paleontologists can tell, Smilodon pounced on its prey from the low branches of trees, dug its "sabers" into the neck of its unfortunate victim, and then withdrew to a safe distance as the animal bled to death.

7. Saber-Tooth Tigers may have lived in packs.

Modern big cats are pack animals, which has tempted some paleontologists to speculate that Saber-Tooth Tigers lived in packs as well. One piece of evidence supporting this idea is that many Smilodon fossils bear evidence of old age and disease; these debilitated individuals would not have been able to survive without assistance from other pack members.

8. Saber-Tooth Tigers probably preyed on juveniles...

Despite their imposing bulk, Saber-Tooth Tigers (even hunting in packs) wouldn't have been capable of taking down full-grown Woolly Mammoths. Just like modern tigers, Smilodon scored most of its meals by picking off the smaller, slower juveniles of large, herbivorous mammals; likely candidates included the Giant Sloth and various prehistoric horses.

9. ...but they weren't above scavenging the occasional meal, either.

No predator on earth would turn up its nose at the carcass of a recently deceased animal--whether that victim met its end from old age, disease, or an attack by another carnivore. Compared to modern big cats, Saber-Tooth Tigers had unusually thick, slow, stocky builds, which would have made a "free" dinner an especially appealing prospect.

10. The Saber-Tooth Tiger went extinct 10,000 years ago.

Why did the Saber-Tooth Tiger vanish off the face of the earth at the end of the last Ice Age? It's unlikely that early humans hunted Smilodon to extinction; rather, it was probably a combination of climate change and the disappearance of its large-sized, slow-witted prey that spelled the Saber-Tooth Tiger's doom.

Tiger Fun facts!

Tiger Roar

- You can hear a tiger roar over a mile away!

- A tiger can eat 100 pounds of meat a night! Compare that to 400 hamburgers! They need a lot of food because they go days between meals.

- Tigers have been called man eaters, yet they eat frogs, monkeys, porcupines  fowl, and tortoises, especially  when a good deer is hard to find.

- Tigers have eyes that are the brightest of any other animal in the world. At dusk, or in the beam of a torch, they blaze back the ambient light with awe-inspiring intensity.

- Tigers are the biggest cats in the world. They live in steamy hot jungles as well as icy cold forests. There are five different kinds or subspecies of tiger alive in the world today. These tigers are called Siberian, South China, Indochinese, Bengal, and Sumatran. Tigers are an endangered species; only about 5,000 to 7,400 tigers are left in the wild. Three tiger subspecies, the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers have become extinct in the past 70 years.

- Depending on the subspecies, the head-body length of a tiger is about 41/2 to 9 feet (1.4-2.8 m). The length of the tail is 3 to 4 feet (90-120 cm). The foot pads vary in size with age, resulting in inaccurate estimates when used in censuring wild populations.

- The heaviest tiger recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records is a 1,025-pound male Siberian tiger.

Siberian Tiger

- Siberian tigers are the heaviest subspecies at 500 or more pounds (225 kg), with males heavier than females. The lightest subspecies is the Sumatran; males weigh about 250 pounds (110 kg) and females around 200 pounds (90 kg).

- The size of a tiger's territory depends on the amount of food available, and usually ranges from about 10 to 30 square miles (26-78 sq. km). Siberian tigers sometimes have really big territories (as large as 120 square miles).

- Although tigers usually live alone, tiger territories can overlap. A male tiger's territory usually overlaps those of several female tigers.

- Tigers mark their territories by spraying bushes and trees with a special mixture of urine and scent gland secretions. They also leave scratch marks on trees.

Tiger's eyes

- Tigers can see in the dark six times better than humans can. They can also see in color.

- Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises (except for the blue eyes of white tigers). Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.

- Young tigers live with their mother until they are two to three years old, then they find their own territories.

- Unlike some big cats like lions, adult tigers like to live alone (except for mother tigers with cubs). This is partly because in the forest, a single tiger can sneak up and surprise its prey better than a group of tigers can.

- Most tigers have an orange coat with dark brown or black stripes accented with white. Tigers that live in cold climates (Siberian tigers) have thicker fur than tigers that live in warm climates.

- A tiger's tail is 3 to 4 feet long, about half as long as its body. Tigers use their tails for balance when they run through fast turns. They also use their tails to communicate with other tigers.

- No one knows exactly why tigers are striped, but scientists think that the stripes act as camouflage, and help tigers hide from their prey. The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes. Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints; no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.

Tiger's paw

- A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.

- Like domestic cats, tiger claws are retractable. Tiger scratches on trees serve as territorial markers.

- They often carry the Chinese mark of Wang or King on the forehead.

- The life span of tigers in the wild is thought to be about 10 years. Tigers in zoos live twice as long.

Tiger cubs

- Tiger cubs are born blind and weigh only about 2 to 3 pounds (1 kg), depending on the subspecies. They live on milk for 6-8 weeks before the female begins taking them to kills to feed. Tigers have fully developed canines by 16 months of age, but they do not begin making their own kills until about 18 months of age.