Tigers

[rev 20090117]

[wood-engraving by Thomas Bewick]

This page has links to useful or interesting information about the big cat which can be the biggest cat of all. The tiger is perhaps my favourite – for several reasons – and (judging by the number of 'tiger pages') the favourite of others, too. Even the Oxford English Dictionary (being developed further on-line) at one stage chose "tiger" as an example of a search term.

• see also: big cats generally | lions | other big cats | miscellaneous

tigers: panthera tigris

information, scientific references, etc

• Save the Tiger Fund – this is the place to go for general information on tigers
  and latest news from around the world [970609 rev 20070324]
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Selected references on Tigers
  – lots of useful books and articles on tigers [970609 rev 20070324]
• David Rose's Tiger Page
  – some info on poaching and status of the various subspecies of tiger [990411]
• Tiger pictures and facts – slightly garish, but may be useful... [20070325]

mainly conservation

• Carnivore Preservation Trust – emphasis on tigers? downloads rather cumbersome... [rev 20070324]
• International Exotic Feline Sanctuary [rev 20070324]
• Tiger Haven, Inc. – endangered species sanctuary in East Tennessee [970609]
• Leuzinger tiger ranch – a German institution asking for support [20000530]
• Tiger Rescue – this place had been presented as a non-profit sanctuary in California (financed by public donations) for retired animal actors from films, television, stage etc: nearly 90 big cats, including tigers, leopards and lions. But as this news item from 2003 reveals, the set-up proved to be something very different. Let that serve as an awful warning... [970619 rev 20070324]
• My Brother's Keeper Animal Sanctuary – Sleeping Tiger, LLC (with a 'sticky' Zen connection!) in Sperry, OK asks for support [20080706]

the "way out"... and so, the tale-end :)

Alas, a couple of favourites have expired: the Norwegian tiger fannklub, the "I'll swear I can domesticate a tiger" page...  and both the Tony Tiger pages I had. Some of the following seem to be defunct now, too, so I've removed the dead links; but I've left in the old entries, without links, just for interest – but some are worth following up in www.archive.org ...

• 'Bay Area Tiger Trainer' – not at all sure about this one... but a press release about Chris Austria came up with some rather surprising photos! [20090117]
• Tiger Tails Ltd – unbelievably, this firm supplied a genuine tiger act "to break the ice at parties" (for the faint of heart, they also did a tiger tee-shirt)
  see: http://www.intcomm.net/~tiger/ in www.archive.org (Dec 1998 to Aug 2000)
• Tigers in Cyberspace – Hobbesian antics [990411]
• Passages – short story by Chris Johnson (jinx_tigr) – a moving 'transformation fantasy' [990411 rev 20070324]
• How to make a tail – for "daily use"... Full instructions (and pix) for what is actually a snow leopard appendage, but it might as well go in here. (A basket is demonstrated for safe use when cycling.) Extending this idea -> furrydom + bare paws [20000427; rev 20020606]
• An unexpected find of a rather unexpected view of a tiger [20110103]
• Marlos' big cat pictures site may be defunct, but see his 'tiger obsession' ... [990412 rev 20070324]
• Lazy plagiarism – interestingly this web page had links with text and comments lifted verbatim from an earlier version of this Tiger page of mine !
  see http://user.aol.com/tigertrail/links.htm in www.archive.org (Dec 1998 to Apr 2008)

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