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Unknown Tigers

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( This post was last modified: 09-15-2018, 02:50 PM by BorneanTiger )

Since this is about unknown tigers, I want to point out the mystery of the Bornean tiger, and I have a photo on it. People in the Sunda island of Borneo have alleged that there used to be tigers in their island, as recently as the 20th century (https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/was-borneo-once-a-land-of-tigers/, https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/19188/1/AP-v20n1-51-69.pdf, https://books.google.com/books?id=XFIbjBEQolMC&pg=PA54&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bornean%20tiger&f=false). Borneo has a tropical climate similar to those of other Sunda islands, and has almost the same fauna as Sumatra (https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/was-borneo-once-a-land-of-tigers/). Amongst the fauna found here are potential prey of the tiger, such as the bearded pig and muntjac deer (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik_Meijaard/publication/236898561_The_Bornean_tiger_speculation_on_its_existence/links/00b7d51a1e7ec3c441000000/The-Bornean-tiger-speculation-on-its-existence.pdf). The Bornean tiger was said to be small like its Sumatran relative (Page 35: https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=dbQ8AAAAIAAJ&q=bornean+tiger#v=snippet&q=bornean%20tiger&f=false), and mostly brown with faint stripes (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik_Meijaard/publication/236898561_The_Bornean_tiger_speculation_on_its_existence/links/00b7d51a1e7ec3c441000000/The-Bornean-tiger-speculation-on-its-existence.pdf).
 
When Taufik Wijaya of Mongabay paid a visit to Iber Djamal, a leader of the Dayak Ngaju, an indigenous Bornean folk, particularly in the Indonesian part of Borneo, which is called "Kalimantan" (meaning "Borneo"), he noticed a local kind of machete called the "Mandau", which had fangs on it. According to Djamal, these fangs were from a tiger that was killed by his ancestor, not a leopard or clouded leopard. Photo of Djamal with his Mandau, with the fangs at the bottom, next to his hand, by Jemmie Delvian: https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/was-borneo-once-a-land-of-tigers/ 

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It is not just Bornean natives who alleged that there were tigers were in Borneo. Amongst the foreigners who talked about the tiger in Borneo was Douchan Gersi, who claimed to have seen one in South Belayan, East Kalimantan, in 1975, and published 2 photographs to support his statement, apparently including one in Page 87 of this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=wUPvHAAACAAJ&dq=&redir_esc=y
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