Talk:Tiger

Pet tigers

Which states can you have a pet tiger in with no license? And which is it illegal? 16 Nov. 09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 3Beccaboo (talk • contribs) 23:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Google it, this is not a Q&A area. ZooPro 00:55, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

You can't have tigers as pets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.113.149.123 (talk) 23:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Length of Siberian tiger?

Any reason why Siberians are listed with a length of 230cm max? This contradicts the Siberian tiger wiki as well as my general knowledge that recalls that they reach 330cm in the largest cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amur Tiger (talk • contribs) 04:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, Lioncrusher says 286 cm max and ADW says 3.7 meters max, and that's quite a disparity. All the data needs to be collected and the entry corrected. For sure. Seduisant (talk) 15:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, but none of that supports the current absurdly low number of 230. For the main time it might be good to change it to something that isn't clearly wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.160.184 (talk) 19:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done Siberian tiger provides the correct data, i have also added female size to ensure consistancy. ZooPro 09:01, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

There is a misunderstanding. The range of 190-230 cm is just for the “head and body length”, so it doesn’t take in count the tail length. That’s why you were confused. I correct the cite, that came form “Wild Cats of the World” of Sunquist and Sunquist (2002). If some one needs a image of the references, I can put it here.--AmbaDarla (talk) 07:42, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Titania

The entire discussion of "Titiana" in the section "Man-Eating Tigers" is poorly written, superfluous, lacking citation and should clearly be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pck24 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done - I read through the history and found what you were refering too, it reads like a journalist had written it for Shock and Awe it has been fixed though. ZooPro 09:09, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

"As pets" sources

Every single claim in the "As pets" section refferences "The Book of General Ignorance" as the source, which seems odd, as this book is about gameshow quiz questions that people commonly get wrong. Searching google shows similar information as to what this section says (even larger numbers kept as pets), so it may be accurate, but incorrectly sourced. FlamingMoonsOfSaturn (talk) 13:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

In progress - I will fix up the citations at a later date as i believe the information may be true, however you are correct and i have removed the false source. Cheers ZooPro 08:52, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Two or three extinct subspecies?

The article gives two different numbers for the modern subspecies that have gone extinct. Which one is it, two or three?

"Of the nine subspecies of modern tiger, three are extinct..."
"There are nine recent subspecies of tiger, two of which are extinct..."

I'd say that's a bit confusing.

Ufomies (talk) 06:56, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pathera of east asian origin Sanskrit word?

Pundareek is Sanskrit for Lotus, this is a fact, one can find that online everywhere. Somebody on the net has wrongly translated it as "Tiger", and that reference is being used here on Wikipedia, how can we correct that please? The actual sanskrit word for Tiger is "Vyaghra", which is the root for the modern Hindi word for Tiger "Baagh" Lilaac (talk) 02:23, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

if you provide me with a source i will change it.ZooPro 03:06, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I cannot edit this article but I notice that repetitive sentence structure is used in the Territorial behaviour section: 2 sentences in a row start with "For instance". The "for instance" in the second of those could be removed to create a better paragraph, and there would be no change in content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plokijuhujiko (talk • contribs) 01:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Tiger

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Tiger's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "perry":

• From Sloth Bear: Perry, Richard (1965). The World of the Tiger. p. 260. ASIN: B0007DU2IU.
• From Asian Black Bear: Chapter Eleven: Jungle Contacts-II from Steve Perry's The World of the Tiger, Cassel & Company, 1964

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, the "Steve Perry" reference is probably wrong. "Steve" must've been mistakenly substituted for Richard Perry's given name. So, that means both references actually refer to the same book by the same author. 84.194.228.192 (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Tiger:Evolution???

Shouldn't the evolutionary history of the tiger be given here?? Guru-45 (talk) 04:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

tigers

tell me why tigers are becoming extinct —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.40.40 (talk) 18:09, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

External links

Exactly how is the first link in the external links section of encyclopaedic value ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.200.183 (talk) 12:58, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Bengal Tiger

The subsection containing the information on the Bengal Tiger (P. t. tigris), I found to be particularly confusing or two main reasons. I have highlighted the sentences that I feel could be better edited below.

The Bengal tiger or the Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most common subspecies of tiger and is found primarily in India and Bangladesh.[20] It lives in varied habitats: grasslands, subtropical and tropical rainforests, scrub forests, wet and dry deciduous forests, and mangroves. Males in the wild usually weigh 205 to 227 kg (450 to 500 lb), while the average female will weigh about 141 kg.[21] However, the northern Indian and the Nepalese Bengal tigers are somewhat bulkier than those found in the south of the Indian Subcontinent, with males averaging around 235 kilograms (520 lb).[21] While conservationists already believed the population to be below 2,000,[22] the most recent audit by the Indian Government's National Tiger Conservation Authority has estimated the number at just 1,411 wild tigers (1165–1657 allowing for statistical error), a drop of 60% in the past decade.[23] Since 1972, there has been a massive wildlife conservation project, known as Project Tiger, to protect the Bengal tiger. Despite increased efforts by Indian officials, poaching remains rampant and at least one Tiger Reserve (Sariska Tiger Reserve) has lost its entire tiger population to poaching.[24]

In the case of the first sentence; The Bengal tiger or the Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most common subspecies of tiger and is found primarily in India and Bangladesh.[20] wouldn't it be prudent to list all of the countries in which this subspecies can be found? I understand with the reasoning for listing the countries in which it is predominantly in, however because (and I deal with this in my second objection) there are other countries in which it can be found, if one, is trying to reasonably approximate currently subspecies populatio estimates, numbers for other other countries Bengal Tigers subspecies populations would be helpful. I do believe for instance, it can also be found in Myanmar (Burma) and Nepal. The Bengal Tiger wikipedia page itself listed a rough population estimate of 200 I believe.

In the case of the second sentence, While conservationists already believed the population to be below 2,000,[22] the most recent audit by the Indian Government's National Tiger Conservation Authority has estimated the number at just 1,411 wild tigers (1165–1657 allowing for statistical error), a drop of 60% in the past decade., shouldn't there be a distinction made somewhere in this sentence to clarify the difference between the total subspecies population estimates and the population estimates of the subspecies in India alone. The first part of the sentence refers, I believe, to world population estimates of the Bengal tiger subspecies whereas the second part of this sentence refers to the population of the Bengal tiger subspecies in India alone. It does say, to be fair, that the second estimate is being made by the Indian NTCA however conservation organizations often take into consideration world populations. This sentence starting off with the word "While" also seems to indicate that these two numbers apparently conflict making it seem as if on one hand some believe the population estimate to be 2000 whereas on the other hand the Indian NTCA believes there to be 1400 when in fact they refer to two different populations. I do believe that the initial number of 2,000 for the world population is dated to at least 2008 if not further back. Perhaps dates would be practical to be included with respective population estimates as well since population estimates on subspecies population surface at an annual, if not faster, rate.

This is my first comment on any wikipedia discusion page so I certainly hope I have met the criteria concerning politeness and process.

Mapscannotcontainme (talk) 04:20, 17 April 2010 (UTC)Mapscannotcontainme

tiger project

why there is a need for these projects? what stops has been taken by the government? what measurers can be taken by us? name of the celebrities associated with that project?