tiger

     

Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858

Trivia about tiger

  • The Siberian species of this carnivore is the largest cat
  • Not surprisingly, its scientific name is Panthera tigris
  • This Asian carnivore is the largest member of the cat family & the only big cat with striped fur
  • The 2005 version of the Mac operating system shares its name with this tawny Asian feline
  • Panthera tigris
  • William Blake tells of this animal "burning bright in the forests of the night"
  • The Indonesian island of Sumatra has its own subspecies of this large feline
  • The Sundarbans, a swampy area on the Ganges, is one of the last remaining preserves for this big cat
  • It's not so gr-r-reat that the last known member of the Balinese species of this big cat was killed in 1937
  • Beanie Baby fanatics know Blizzard is a white one of these
  • Shere Khan, Mowgli's enemy in "The Jungle Book", was this type of feline
  • A magazine for teens: ____ Beat
  • In "The Jungle Book" Shere Khan is one of these wild animals
  • The largest member of the cat family
  • The title of Tom Coyne's golf memoir "Paper" this pays homage to George Plimpton's "Paper Lion"
  • The Brady Bunch had a cat named Fluffy & a dog named this
  • Dealing with one's obsession is like having one of these animals "by the tail"
  • In Chinese lore this big cat, not the lion, was king of the beasts
  • There's a striped yellow butterfly named for this wild striped feline (Grrrr!)
  • The Siberian is the largest of these, the largest member of the cat family
  • There are Siberian and Bengal types of this, the largest member of the cat family
  • It's the mascot for a Major League Baseball team, Louisiana State University & a breakfast cereal
  • Someone who looks impressive or powerful but is in fact neither is said to be a "paper" one of these animals
  • As it's not a true albino, the rare white Bengal one of these felines has blue eyes
  • Eating almost 3,000 kilos of meat a year, this cat is the largest land mammal with an all-meat diet
  • The Sumatran is the only species of this cat that now lives on an island; the rest live on the Asian mainland
  • A subspecies of this type of large cat lives on the island of Sumatra
  • You can tell by its stripes that the deadly Australian snake here is named for this big cat
  • Commodus was on the throne when this largest big cat started licking Cowardus, tragically scaring him to death
  • Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Man Booker Prize with "The White ___"
  • In identifying the butterfly seen here, the name of this fierce animal comes before "swallowtail"
  • The striping adds this predator's name to the shrimp seen here