Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Bali tiger

The Bali tiger (Panthera Tigris Balica), Harimau Bali in Indonesian, or Samong in Balinese, is an extinct tiger species that was native to the Indonesian island of Bali. It was the 1st tiger species to become extinct in recent times and it was declared extinct in September 27th, 1937. It was one of the 3 species of tiger native to Indonesia, together with the Javan, which is also extinct, and the Sumatran, which is critically endangered. The Bali tiger was the smallest species and the Sumatran tiger is the smallest living species. It is also one of the 3 recently extinct tigers. Of the 9 species of tigers, there are now only 6 species and the remaining populations are all endangered. The 3 extinct tigers are the Bali tiger (1937), the Caspian tiger (1970's), and the Javan tiger (1980's). Bali tigers like Honshu wolves, were aggressive carnivores, and like I said, they were the smallest species. And when my dad was 24, he met the world's oldest Sumatran tiger and it nipped him. Like the Bengal tiger, the Bali tiger was totally king of the jungle. The Sumatran tiger is the last species to survive in Indonesia. Hunters weren't the only ones to blame, farms, expanding cities, and big logging operations pushed the Bali tiger to extinction and the same was happening to the Hokkaido wolf but with chemical extermination and declared extinct in 1889. The tigers of Russia are the largest and the ones of Indonesia are the smallest. Lots of stuff happened in 1889 like Adolf Hitler was born, the Bonin wood pigeon was declared extinct, Igor Sikorsky was born, the Eastern hare wallaby was declared extinct, and other things. Adolf Hitler was really a good guy, he killed millions of people and he was Austrian and I thought he was German but it's a good thing he died in the 40's so we're lucky because life in important. An animal's life is probably just as important as a human's. The 6 live ones are the Bengal, Indochinese, Malaysian, Siberian, South China, and Sumatran.

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