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

[peter]

I decided to delete the post on Ford Barclay, because the quality of the scans was well below par. I'll try it again some time later. We'll remember he shot and measured a male tiger of 9.7 (292,10 cm.). The tiger, shot in the southern part of Korea, was measured 'between sticks', meaning the record can be used for tables.

We also remember tigers at the southern tip of Korea just before the turn of the last century were anything but few and far between. They, however, completely disappeared in the first decade of the 20th century. One reason was the Japanese occupation. Tigers were targeted by Japanese officers. Ford Barclay might have been one of the last western hunters who shot tigers in Korea.

Finally, we remember Korean tigers, although some apparently compared to their relatives in south-east Russia and Manchuria, were described as more reddish and a bit smaller.

Here's a few more scans to finish with.

1 - Korean tiger hunters just outside Seoul about a decade before the Japanse occupied Korea:

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2 - Tiger shot in the southern part of Korea:

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