Sunda Island Tiger

The Middle English tigre and Old English tigras derive from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris. This was a borrowing of Classical Greek τίγρις 'tigris', a foreign borrowing of unknown origin meaning 'tiger' and the river Tigris. The origin may have been the Persian word tigra ('pointed or sharp') and the Avestan word tigrhi ('arrow'), perhaps referring to the speed of the tiger's leap, although these words are not known to have any meanings associated with tigers.

• Singular: Sunda Island Tiger

• Plural: Sunda Island Tigers

The Sunda Islands' smallest tiger, according to reports, is the Bali tiger. Only seven Bali tiger skins and skulls were known to have survived in museum collections during the 20th century. The narrow occipital plane, which is similar to the shape of Javan tiger skulls, is a frequent trait of these skulls. Males' skins are 220 to 230 cm (87 to 91 in) long from the top of the head to the end of the tail, while female skins are 190 to 210 cm (75 to 83 in) long. Males typically weighed between 90 and 100 kg (200 and 220 lb), and females between 65 and 80 kg (143 and 176 lb).

The Javan tiger was smaller than other mainland Asian subspecies, but it was bigger than the Bali tiger and about the same size as the Sumatran tiger. It typically had more stripes than the Sumatran tiger, which were long and thin and significantly more frequent. It had a long, thin nose, an unusually narrow occipital plane, and comparatively lengthy carnassials. The Javan tiger was proposed to be classified as a separate species, Panthera sondaica, based on these skull variations.

Males typically weighed between 100 and 141 kg (220 and 311 lb) and had a mean body length of 248 cm (98 in). Females weighed between 75 and 115 kg (165 and 254 lb), making them lighter than males. Bergmann's rule and the size of the available prey species in Java, which are smaller than the deer and bovid species on the Asian mainland, are blamed for the Javan tiger's smaller body size. However, compared to Bengal tigers in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, its tracks have a wider diameter. It was rumored that the Javan tiger was powerful enough to use its paws to shatter water buffalo or horse legs.

Tiger is one of the few animals that have the ability to go into stealth mode and deal 15% additional damage when attacking from behind. In the bush, the tiger enters stealth if it has not taken or dealt any damage in 2 seconds. (It will be detected when close to the enemy.) Upon dealing damage, being detected by enemies, or leaving the bush for 5 seconds, it loses its stealth. Due to countershading, enemies or prey cannot see this species. The Sunda Island Tiger can gallop through meadows or forests and climb trees.

Adult tigers, when not tamed, feed on raw meats of any choice that receive special effects called "Tiger's Eye." This effect occurs when not being attacked by a wild tiger or the owner's tiger under the incantation. Despite their strength and fearsome appearance, these creatures are far from monsters.

Adult tigers, when tamed, cannot receive the special effect while under taming. As a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, or actually shape-shifting witches themselves, called Black Tiger. All countries in Europe and Asia consider the black tiger, or melanistic panther, a symbol of bad luck, particularly if one walks across the path in front of a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death.

When not subject to human disturbance, the tiger is mainly diurnal. It does not often climb trees, but cases have been recorded. It is a strong swimmer and often bathes in ponds, lakes, and rivers, thus keeping cool in the heat of the day.

Tiger cubs stay with their mother for about two years before they become independent and leave their mother's home range to establish their own. Wild tigers that have had no prior contact with humans actively avoid interactions with humans. In the wild, tigers mostly feed on large and medium-sized mammals, particularly ungulates weighing 60–250 kg (130–550 lb).

Most of the known Bali tiger zoological specimens originated in western Bali, where mangrove forests, dunes, and savannah vegetation existed. The main prey of the Bali tiger was likely the Javan rusa. The Javan tiger preyed on Javan rusa, banteng, and wild boar, and less often on waterfowl and reptiles. Nothing is known about its gestation period or life span in the wild or captivity. Up to World War II, some Javan tigers were kept in a few Indonesian zoos that were closed during the war. After the war, it was easier to obtain Sumatran tigers.

In the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, nine prey species larger than 1 kg (2.2 lb) of body weight were identified, including the great argus, pig-tailed macaque, Malayan porcupine, Malayan tapir, banded pig, greater and lesser mouse-deer, Indian muntjac, and Sambar deer.

Elephants, Stegodon, buffalos, tortoises, macaques, civets, birds, and even early humans were the tigers' primary prey in the Philippines from the Pleistocene to the Early Holocene.

Tigers usually prefer to eat self-killed prey but eat carrion in times of scarcity and also steal prey from other large carnivores. Although predators typically avoid one another, if a prize is under dispute or a serious competitor is encountered, displays of aggression are common. If these fail, the conflicts may turn violent; tigers may kill or even prey on competitors such as leopards, dholes, striped hyenas, wolves, bears, pythons, and mugger crocodiles on occasion. However, tigers cause more human deaths through direct attack than any other wild mammal, with man-eating tigers being considered an apex predator.

The Sunda tiger is primarily nocturnal, hunting at dawn and nightfall and resting in dense cover during the day's heat. Each adult in this species marks their sizable home range with scent and scratches, indicating territoriality. While the males' territories do not overlap with those of other males, they do overlap with a number of females.

With the exception of moms with cubs or transient mating pairs in their own "streak" group, this species' social structure is solitary. Roars, chuffs, growls, scent marks, and scratched trees are all forms of communication. It featured "chuffing," a gentle breath utilized in amicable interactions. The Sunda tiger exhibits problem-solving skills in captivity, including the capacity to move things, remember routes, and identify caregivers.

The Sunda tiger is wild and wary; it is not amiable to people, but it is not very hostile until it is trapped. In Maritime Southeast Asia, tiger attacks on people were uncommon and usually happened after habitat incursion or when the victims were elderly or injured. Tigers typically stayed away from human regions, though they were occasionally hunted or caught by Dutch colonists, Javanese, Balinese, Malays, Dayaks, Bajaus, Tausugs, and others.

In prehistoric and pre-colonial times, the Sunda Island tiger ruled and spread over Maritime Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Borneo, Jawa, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and even the Philippine islands of Palawan, Sulu, and Mindanao.

The Javan tiger used to inhabit most of Jawa but had retreated to remote montane and forested areas by 1940. Around 1970, the only known tigers lived in the region of Meru Betiri, the highest mountain in Java's southeast. This rugged region with sloping terrain had not been settled. An area of 500 km² (190 sq mi) was gazetted as a wildlife reserve in 1972. The last tigers were sighted there in 1976.

The Sumatran tiger persists in small and fragmented populations across Sumatra, from sea level in the coastal lowland forest of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park on the southeastern tip of Lampung Province to 3,200 m (10,500 ft) in mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh Province. It is present in 27 habitat patches larger than 250 km² (97 sq mi), which cover 140,226 km² (54,142 sq mi). About a third of these patches are inside protected areas.

The Sumatran tigers prefer lowland and hill forests, where up to three tigers live in an area of 100 km² (39 sq mi). They use non-forest habitats and human-dominated landscapes at the fringes of protected areas to a lesser degree. It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Individual Type: Solo/Group

• Population Trend: Decreasing

• Population: 

  • Earth: 2,154-3,159

  • Berbania: ???

  • Reinachos: ???

  • Delphia: ???

• Locomotion: Amphibious

• Habitat: Tundra; Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain.

• Earth: see below

  • Extant (Resident): Indonesia (Sumatera)

  • Extinct: Brunei; Indonesia (Java; Bali; Borneo); Malaysia; Philippines (Butuan; Palawan); Singapore

An adult tiger cannot be tamed when it is in the adult stage. Only in cub one was there a notable exception. The abandoned kitten can be tamed using any raw fish, meat, or milk.

Since the Sunda Islands tiger is as critically endangered as the Sumatran tiger and the Balinese, Javan, and Bornean (or Palaweno) populations have already gone extinct in the prehistoric to modern ages, it is currently illegal and unattainable. Sunda Islands tigers cannot be safely domesticated, even in the past.

In the Two Lights, Project Daejeon, and Worldcraft series, the Bengal tiger is the last remaining subpopulation of tigers in the world, and there are several attempts to de-extinct and resurrect the last big cat after lions recovered from extinction. Many of the samples of DNA, as well as reserved skins or sleeping tigers from cryogenic sleep, are reserved by copyright of the United Nations. Some of the tigers are descendants of Shere Khan, but it was controversial that the legendary character battled with Mowgli; the boy won the battle against the savage tiger.

Several tigers are continuously decreasing humanity in shared territory, as they did from the 20th to the 21st century. Tigers are continuously increasing the population in Berbania, Reinachos, and Delphia, while the Earth was very rare in all regions of the Indian subcontinent, as well as Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor, and even Papua New Guinea. The only tiger and feline species lived with marsupials without any human interaction after Queen Arianna's existence.

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