ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(11-19-2019, 01:35 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Not just natives, we also have at least 1 notable foreigner, who can be considered to be a predecessor of the likes of Jeff Corwin and Steve Irwin, who claimed to have seen this mysterious tiger. Thus part of solving the puzzle might be getting access to this book by Douchan Gersi, who claimed to have seen a tiger in East Kalimantan, and published two photographs to support his statement: https://books.google.com/books?id=wUPvHA...edir_esc=y

Douchan Gersi:

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*This image is copyright of its original author

Though the Bornean tiger is assumed to have been rather small like its Sumatran relative, it was also considered by natives to have been largely brown in colour with faint stripes, whereas Sumatran tigers tend to have thick stripes on their torsos: https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc...er&f=false, https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._existence

Very interesting, then there is a report from a western about a posible Borneo tiger in modern times! That is good, but let's remember that there is not guaranty that they did exist. People still confuse leopards for tigers in Java and the Caucasus, so I imagine that they can also confuse a Clouded leopard with an small tiger in the dark jungles of Borneo.

Interesting is that the Borneo tiger is described as a dark, almoust brown tiger species with faint stripes. This is completelly diferent from any other tiger description in mainland and the Sunda. I guess it will look like a tiger full of dirt and mud, just like some pictures of Sundarbans tigers. Reply