Comments thread for "The Bornean Tiger: Fact or Fiction?"

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@BorneanTiger :

It a first time I read something about the existence possibility of a Bornean tiger. Why not as you say ! After all, Borneo, noticeably bigger than Sumatra and Java (I believe that Borneo is the fourth biggest island of the Earth between New Guinea and Madagascar), fulfils the conditions to be inhabited by tigers: climate, big forests, fauna... But we have never read that it existed.

You show a native's testimony, enjoying a Bornean tiger's fang... Yes ok.

I think it's perhaps possible that a tiger came to Borneo. But if we look at the map we nevertheless see that a real inlet of the sea separates Borneo from Java and Sumatra. It's very possible for a tiger to go from Sumatra to Java because these two islands are quite close, follow each other very closely. We can easily imagine a tiger swimming from Sumatra to Java. But to Borneo it's a quite another story.

If we could find some facts, some other bones left (more convincing than a single fang), it would be interesting because it would prove that, in a recent past, Borneo was closer to Sumatra or Java than now, making possible a tiger migration and the possibility of an indigenous population.

Another specy commune to Java, Sumatra and Borneo: the ourangutan.

PS: I smiled when I discovered for the first time your pseudo. It was, IMO, a mythical creature, quite mysterious and now you're evoking it... Yes, good ! Reply